Question

Answer these 4 for me please help me step by step

Answer 1

4.

The equation we have is:

$\frac{8}{5}a=-6$

To solve for "a", we want to isolate it in one side.

For this. we can start by multiplying each side by 5. This will make the denominator to cancel out:

$\begin{gathered} 5\cdot\frac{8}{5}a=5\cdot(-6) \\ 8a=-30 \end{gathered}$

Now, we can divide both sides by 8, which will cancel the coefficient 8 multiplying "a":

$\begin{gathered} \frac{8a}{8}=-\frac{30}{8} \\ a=-\frac{15}{4} \end{gathered}$

And that is the answer to 4.