Let's simplify that before we make the decision, shall we? We'll get rid of the parenthesis by distribution and then combine like terms.
4x - 20 = 3x + 7 and combining like terms and getting everything on one side of the equals sign:
1x - 27 = 0. Since that x has a power of 1 on it (linear), that means we have only 1 solution. If that was an x², we would have 2 solutions; if that was an x³, we would have 3 solutions, etc.
