You have to subtract 2.9 to 0.29 because it is a positive number and you have to do the opposite. That will give you -2.61 but you still have to bring down that negative x and to get rid of the negative, you divide both sides by one since there is an understood one beside the x and a number beside another number or variable means multiplication and that will give you, 2.61.
The first step is to get x by itself. So you would subtract 2.9 on the left and right in which the result would be -x=0.29-2.9. After that you would simply by subtracting the values 0.29 and 2.9 from each other; therefore, the answer would be -1.61. The final step is to divide each side (-x and -1.61) by negative 1 and the final answer is 1.61.
