Hello Again!
What you want to do first is add 4 to -4 and to -13. After doing so, you'll equation will look a little something like this...
-3x=9
You'll then want to divide both -3 and 9 by -3. After doing so, the equation will look like this...
x=-3
Your answer is x=-3
I hope this helps
Mechanical Advantage = Force by Hammer / Force by Nail = 160/40 = 4
The mean can be found by adding the two numbers and dividing by 2
let the second number be y
(x + y)/2 = 1/2x + 1
solve for y
multiply each side by 2
x + y = 2(1/2x + 1)
distribute
x + y = x + 2
subtract x on both sides
y = 2
ANSWER: the second number is 2
Answer:
20 comic books
Step-by-step explanation:
Let us first <u>set up a variable</u>, x, for the number of books that Zoe has. If Jared has 12 more comics than Zoe, he would have x+12 books.
Given that Zoe and Jared have a total of 28 comic books, let us write an <u>equation</u> and solve for x:

Now that we have a <u>simplified</u> version of the equation, let us solve for x by <u>isolating the variable</u> on the left side:

We now know that x=8, and also that Jared has x+12 books. To find the number of comic books Jared has, let us <u>add</u> 12 to x:

Therefore, Jared has 20 comic books.
<em>I hope this helps! Please let me know if you have any further questions :)</em>