Step-by-step explanation: When solving an equation like this, we are trying to get our variable which is our letter by itself.
So we first want to ask ourselves what is the 14 doing to <em>x</em>. Well, we can see that it's being added to <em>x</em> so to get <em>x</em> by itself, we will do the opposite of addition which is subtraction. So we subtract 14 from both sides of the equation.
The +14 -14 cancels out so we're left with <em>x</em> on the left.
On the right, we must subtract 14 from 27 to get 13.
So we have x = 13 which is the solution to this equation.
