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Solve the equation ax + b = c for x.

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Answer:

X = C - B

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A

Explanation:

Solving for X is pretty much getting X alone on one side of the equal sign. That's when we would do the "opposite" of what the original equation is showing. And we do that to both sides.

For example, we see +b. The opposite of addition is subtraction, so we do just that. We do -b on BOTH sides of the equal sign. b -b = 0. It cancels it out. c-b is just as it says. So now we have ax = c-b.

Now we see ax are right next to each other with no symbol, which means they are being multiplied. The opposite of multiplication is division. So we'll do that exactly. We will divide A on both sides. ax/a gets rid of that a and leaves the x alone. Dividing c-b/a gives you just that, making the answer X = C-B/A

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