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What is the value of x given the following image

What is the value of x given the following image-example-1
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The angles are supplementary, so x + 5 + 2x -8 = 180. Solve for X. I distributed 2(x -4) to get 2x - 8.

3x - 3 = 180
add 3 to both sides
3x = 183
divide by 3 to both sides
x = 61
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