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I don't know if I'm doing solving for x wrong?

I don't know if I'm doing solving for x wrong?-example-1
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What do you mean by you don’t know if your doing I wrong send the equation
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So you had the two equations equaling each other, but because the lines are parallel, it should be 24x-1+20x+5=180. So if you combine like terms, it should be 44x+4=180, in which you would subtract four from each side to get 44x=176, then divide both sides by 44 and x=4.

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