Answer:
The answer to the equation asking for the value of x is x = -7.
Explanation:
What is distribution?
Distribution is when we are multiplying, dividing, adding, etc one or more numbers to other numbers in an equation.
3 (x - 2) = 5x + 8
First, we must deal with the values inside the parentheses. Since we can't do any operation, we move on to multiplying the three by each number in the parentheses.
3 * x = 3x
3 * -2 = -6
3x - 6 = 5x + 8
Now, we can start to combine like terms.
3x - 6 + 6 = 5x + 8 + 6
3x = 5x + 14
We need to get both 3x and 5x together, but they have to be isolated from 14. So, we subtract 5x from both sides.
3x - 5x = 5x - 5x + 14
-2x = 14
The last step is to divide.
-2x/-2 = 14/-2
x = -7