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3x + 2(5x - 3) = 7

I don’t get it

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3x +2(5x - 3) = 7

3x + 10x - 6 = 7

13x = 7 + 6

13x = 13

X = 1
User Sean Parsons
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x = 1

you isolate the variable by diving each side by factors that don’t contain the variable :)
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