You can just simplify to make an equivalent equation:
(2)(3x + 8) = 5 ⇒ 6x + 16 = 5
Answer:

Hope it helped,
BioTeacher101
<em>(If you have any questions feel free to ask them in the comments)</em>
Five times a number less than one hundred.
♥ To solve find how much this will cost
AFTER the price increases.
♥ Solve:
Multiply the original price as it is by: <span>1.057 (5.7 as a decimal would be 0.057, but as i said to keep the original price, the 1 will keep it there.)
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Final answer: <span>
$195.54</span>
I believe you do it like this:
1/2 Q+5/2
divide 1/2 into each term
to divide multiply by the reciprocal
1/2 x2/1= 1
5/2 x 2/1=5
1/2(Q+5)