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after checking her solution ,mrs.Miracle found that she made a mistake while solving this equation what mistake did she make

after checking her solution ,mrs.Miracle found that she made a mistake while solving-example-1

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The solving of the equation starts with:

6 x + 10 = 2 x - 2

in the second step the person made a mistake when trying to isolate the term in x on the right.

In order to get rid of the term "-2" on the right, one needs to ADD to both sides "2", therefore obtaining:

6 x + 10 + 2 = 2 x

and the combining of 10 + 2 is 12 (not 8 as the person mistankenly wrote)

the correct second step should have been:

6 x + 12 = 2x

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