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What is the 1st step to solving a multi-step equation?

What is the 1st step to solving a multi-step equation?-example-1

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Firstly, we would distribute the 2 and get rid of the parenthesis by using distributive property, which is:


a(b+c)=ab+ac

So, we have:


\begin{gathered} 2(x+4)=6 \\ 2x+8=6 \end{gathered}

Second step would be to subtract 8 off both sides so we have variables to one side and numbers to another, thus we have:


\begin{gathered} 2x+8=6 \\ 2x=6-8 \\ 2x=-2 \end{gathered}

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