Note the equal sign. What you do to one side, you do to the other. Isolate the a.
Add 4 to both sides
a- 4 (+4) = 15 (+4)
a = 15 + 4
a = 19
19 is your answer for a
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If we plug in 0 for x, we can receive the data for the year 1982. Doing so shows us that the Rural area was 1,417.4 million acres and the total area was 1,839.4 million acres. Therefore, we can conclude that the majority of the area of the United States was rural in 1982.
Answer:
One answer would be -2.155.
