The distance on the number line from 5 to 12 equals 3x – 2. What is the value of x?
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Looking at the problem, what we must do to complete this question is to completely factor the expression that was provided. The expression that was provided is .
The first step that we must do is to take a look at the expression and see what the two pieces of the expression have in common. We can see that both and
have the number 5 and the variable c associated with them so we can factor out those two.
<u>Factor out 5c</u>
Now we have completely factored out the expression that was provided in the problem statement and we came to final answer of .