Question

How do you solve `46= 2( b + 9)`?

Answer 1

Solving for `b` gives us `14`

Explanation:

So to solve this, we need to distribute the 2 on the right side of the equal sign before starting to solve for `b`.

So doing the distributive property gives us:

`46=2b+18`

Now, we subtract 18 from both sides which gives us:

`28=2b`

Now we divide both sides by `2` which gives us: `b=14`