3 years ago

Emma wants to use the distributive property to solve this equation.

2 answers:

6 0

The property states that you can divide both sides of an equation by the same number (of course it can't be zero). So, since we want to solve for $x$ , but the equation involves $5x$ , if we divided both sides by $5$ we would isolate $x$ . In fact, the equation becomes

$\frac{5x}{5} = \frac{40}{5} \iff x=8$

And we have solved the equation, because we found the correct value of $x$ .

OLEGan [10]3 years ago

5 0

the answer is x= 8, because 5 divided by 40 is 8

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