Question

Solve the equation 6=5x+2​

Answer 1

Hi Student!

Looking at this problem, it is pretty straight forward and we don't need to do much information gathering to help answer our question. The main point is that we just need to solve the equation also known as solving for the unknown variable.

Subtract 2 from both sides

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  `6= 5x + 2`

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  `6 - 2 = 5x + 2 - 2`

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  `4 = 5x`

Divide both sides by 5

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  `(4)/(5) = (5x)/(5)`

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  `(4)/(5) = x`

Therefore, our final solution to this problem is that x is equal to 4/5 or we can convert this to a decimal to which we will then get 0.8.