Question

Solve for x: 1/4 (4x + 15) = 24

Answer 1

So we have the equation:

$\frac{1}{4} (4x+15)=24$

So we first must multiply both sides by 4 in order to get rid of the $\frac{1}{4}$ on the left side:

$(4x+15)=96$

Then we need to subtract 15 on both sides in order to get the x term by itself on the left side:

$4x=81$

And then to completely solve for x, we need to divide both sides by 4:

$x=20.25$