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Expert: Sherry Wallin - 11/30/2011


Question
how do you solve this problem i don't get how you do it?!
8x+10=2x-8

Answer
Hailey~

8x + 10 = 2x - 8
first you want to gather your terms with x on one side so lets -2x from both sides
6x + 10 = -8  now you want x by itself so lets subtract 10 from both sides
6x = -18 now we want c by itself so we divide by 6 on both sides so that we get
x = -3
You can check x = -3 in the original equation to see if it is indeed a solution:
8(-3) + 10 ?= 2(-3) - 8
-24 + 10 ?= -6 - 8
-14 ?= -14   yes!!

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Sherry Wallin

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I can answer most questions up through Calculus and some in Number Theory and Abstract Algebra.

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I have had my Bachelor's Degree since 1987 and have been a teacher since 1988. I earned my Masters Degree in Mathematics May 2010. I have been teaching at the same community college since 2002.

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I have taught 12 years at the community college level, medical college, and technical college as well as a high school instructor and alternative education instructor and charter school instructor.

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Master's GPA 3.56 Bachelor's GPA 3.34 Post grad work not degree related GPA 4.0

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