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PLEASE HELP!!! 3x - x - 5 = 2(x+2)-9

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Answer:

Infinite Solutions

Explanation:

To solve for this problem, we want to isolate x on one side of the equation.

Apply the distributive property on the right side:


3x - x - 5 = 2x+4 -9

Combine like terms:


2x - 5 = 2x - 5

Woah, we have the exact same thing on both sides of the equation. This means that we have infinite solutions, aka any value of x will satisfy this equation.

Test it out! Any value of x, whether its 1, 5, or 10000 will satisfy the equation.

So this has infinite solutions.

Hope this helped!

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