What is the solution to the equation 3x - 7.5 = 22.5?x = 0x = 10x = 8x = 6

Yacine Filali asked Jan 4, 2023

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Yacine Filali asked Jan 4, 2023

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To answer this question we will isolate x.

Adding 7.5 to the given equation we get:

$\begin{gathered} 3x-7.5+7.5=22.5+7.5, \\ 3x=30. \end{gathered}$

Dividing the above result by 3 we get:

Simplifying the above result we get:

Answer: Second option.

Mohamed Shater answered Jan 9, 2023

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