How do you solve $7x-4(2-3x) = 3x-6+8x$ ?

Question

1799 views around the world

You can reuse this answer
Creative Commons License

Answer 1 · 2017-12-23T14:53:44

$x = 0.25$

Try to shift all the expressions to one side

$7x-4(2-3x)-3x+6-8x=0$

Expand the brackets and add all like terms

$7x-8+12x-3x+6-8x=0$

$8x-2=0$

Make x the subject

$x =2/8$

$x = 0.25$

How do you solve 7x-4(2-3x) = 3x-6+8x7x-4(2-3x) = 3x-6+8x?