How do you solve $-2x - 5= 77$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2017-09-21T23:22:01

See below.

The first step that we want to do is add $5$ to both sides of the equation, as we want to combine the numbers:

$-2x-5=77$

$-2x=82$

Now, we can divide by $-2$ on both sides in order to eliminate the coefficient in front of $x$ (the number in front of $x$ , which is $-2$ ):

$-2x=82$

$x=-41$

This is our solution, $x=-41$ !

I hope that helps!

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