Sara made an error in solve the one-step equation below.5x + 9 = 29-9 -9- 4x = 29/4. /4x = -7.25What is the error that Sara made
1 answer:
To solve this one-step equation you:
1. Substract 9 in both sides of the equation:
In this step is the mistake as Sara gets as result -4x=29 and the corret result of substract 9 in both sides of the equation is 5x=20.2. Divide both sides of the equation into 5:
Then, the answer that Sara should found for the equation is x=4
You might be interested in
at the beginning of year 4, only 3 years have elapsed, the 4th year hasn't started yet, since it's at the beginning, so at the beginning of year 4 we can say only 4-1 years have elapsed.