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Solve 4x -1 = 3x – 5 pls answer

User Ted Sander
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Answer:


\fbox{\begin{minipage}{4em}x = -4\end{minipage}}

Explanation:

Given:

Equation:
4x - 1 = 3x - 5

Solve for:


x

Solution:

Step 1: Select relevant approach:

Let's move all the components containing x to the left side and other components to the right side (notice the change of sign of each one from positive to negative and negative to positive), then solve for
x

Step 2: Perform the calculation:


4x - 1 = 3x - 5

Moving components:

<=>
4x - 3x = 1 - 5

Performing simplification to get
x

<=>
x = -4

Hope this helps!

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