You subtract 5 from 5 and whatever you do on one side you do to the other so 24 would be 19. Now you have 19=6x you now have to cancel out six by dividing 6 by 6 whatever you do to one side you do to the other so now 19 divided by 6 is 3.16666667 round that to 3.2 so (x = 3.2)