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Explain how you could use a property of equality to show the following: if 3x=28 then 3x-5=23

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To get the equations to equal each other, all you have to do is add five to each side on the equation 3x - 5 = 23.

If you add five, both equations will then be 3x = 28.

I hope that helps!
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