X + 4 = 12
This is because the question gives you everything you require for this sentence to be formed. 12 is the final answer. 4 is added on and

is basically the number that is to be found.
Answer:
The net sales for last month were <u>$19,525</u>.
Step-by-step explanation:
Given:
Last month sales were $24,000.
Discounts is $3,500 and $975 in returns.
Now, to get the net sales for last month.
So, we deduct the discount:
<em>Sales - discounts</em> = 
Then, we deduct the returns from the remaining amount:
<em>Sales after discounts - returns</em> = 
= 
Therefore, the net sales for last month were $19,525.
To solve for <em>x</em>, we must first isolate the term containing <em>x</em> which in this problem is 5x.
Since 10 is being added to 5x, we subtract 10 from both sides of the equation to isolate the 5x.
On the left, the +10 and -10 cancel out and on the right, 20 - 10 is 10 and we have 5x = 10.
Now we can finish things off by just dividing both sides of the equation by 5. On the left the 5's cancel and on the right, 10 divided by 5 is 2 so <em>x = 2</em>.
You can break large numbers into a sum of a multiple(s) of 10 and the last digit of the number. For example, you can break 26 as 20+6, or 157 as 100+50+7.
Then, using the distributive property, you can turn the original multiplication into a sum of easier multiplications. For example, suppose we want to multiply 26 and 37. This is quite challenging to do in your mind, but you can break the numbers as we said above:

All these multiplications are rather easy, because they either involve multiples of 10 of single-digit numbers:
