Question

7 (c + 4) - 19= -26 Can some please do the working out (Example in the photo)

Answer 1

Steps for solving:

1. First you want to simplify the left side by distributing the 7 through both of your terms inside the set of parentheses.  

2. This leaves us with 7c + 28 - 19 = -26

3. We can simplify one step further on the left side

by subtracting 28 - 19 to get 9.

4. So we have 7c + 9 = -26.

5. Now subtract 5 from both sides to get 7c = -35.

6. Finish things off by dividing both sides by 7 and we find that c = -5