93.9k views
1 vote
What is the answer to this question?

What is the answer to this question?-example-1
User Xh Lin
by
7.9k points

1 Answer

7 votes

The value of x is 22.

To solve the equation 5/3=x+8/18 for x, we can start by multiplying both sides of the equation by the denominator of the fraction on the right side, which is 18. This helps eliminate the fraction:18× 5/3=18× x+8/18

Simplifying both sides, we get:

30=x+8

Now, to isolate x, we subtract 8 from both sides:

x=22

However, we have to be careful with the negative sign in the original problem. The correct solution is x=22.

User Matt Garrod
by
8.2k points