Question

Chelsea shows her work in finding the solution to 4x−5=2+3(x−3). After checking her answer in the original equation, she found that it did not work. Where did she make a mistake?

Answer 1

`4x - 5 = 2 + 3(x - 3)`

`4x - 5 = 2 + 3x - 9`

`4x - 3x = - 7 + 5`

`x = - 2`

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