Question

Ignore the 14 . I just need a brief explanation with the answer

Answer 1

For this case we can start with the following:

5x +2 = 8x -25

solving for x we got:

25+2 = 8x -5x

27 = 3x

x= 9

Then we can do the following equation:

360 = 180 + 5x -2 + 8x -25 + 2y

And then we can solve for y:

360= 180+ 94 + 2y

86 = 2y

y = 43