How do you solve #2x + 7- 4x + 10= 7x - 2+ 3x#?
1 Answer
Sep 15, 2016
Group like terms and then solve for x working backwards.
Explanation:
The communative property of addition can be used to group like terms.
Moving like terms around so the like terms are next to each other makes the problem easier to solve. Doing this gives.
Next simply by adding like terms This gives
Move all the x's to one side of the equation by doing the opposite
Now move the non-variable (constant) terms to the other side of the equation.
This gives