Chelsea shows her work in finding the solution to 4x-5=2+3 (x-3) 4 x 5 2 3 (x 3). After checking her answer in the original equation, she found that it did not work. Where did she make a mistake?

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Kyla Sutton

8 July, 05:18

Chelsea shows her work in finding the solution to 4x-5=2+3 (x-3) 4 x 5 2 3 (x 3). After checking her answer in the original equation, she found that it did not work. Where did she make a mistake?

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Douglas Wilkins · Answer 1

You want to combine you like term so it will be 4x-5=532

then you want to subtract 5 from both side and you will get 4x=527

then you will want to divide 527 by 4

and get 131.75

so x=131.75