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User Xingbin
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Answer:

Your answer should be b.) He subtracted 4 instead of dividing 4 on both sides.

Explanation:

When trying to find the value of x, you need to divide on both sides instead of subtracting, so after the first step, he would have needed to divide 4x/4 and 20/4 to get the actual answer of x=5.

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