8x - 11 = - 2x + 15 - 5. What steps would you take to solve this?

Combine like terms. So that means combine the X's and combine the regular numbers.

- add 2x to 8x

- combine + 15 - 5

- then add 11 to that

- once you're done, find X by dividing 10x by whatever you have after the = sign