Question

What term can you add to StartFraction 5 over 6 EndFraction x minus 4 to make it equivalent to One-half x minus 4? Negative one-third x Negative one-third One-half x One-half

Answer 1

Answer: The term that can be added is negative one-third x

[-1/3(x)]

Step-by-step explanation: Please see the attachment below

Answer 2

Answer:

$(A)-\frac{1}{3}x$

Step-by-step explanation:

Let the term to be added = y

Therefore:

$\frac{5}{6}x-4+y=\frac{1}{2}x-4$

Collecting Like terms

$y=\frac{1}{2}x-\frac{5}{6}x-4+4 \\=\frac{x}{2}-\frac{5x}{6}\\=\frac{3x-5x}{6}=-\frac{2x}{6}\\y=-\frac{1}{3}x$