v = w - 20
move -20 to the other side
sign changes from -20 to +20
to get w by itself
v+20= w-20+20
Answer:
w= v+20 or w= 20+v
If 7x+3=24, that means x would be 3 so if you take 5-4x then that would be -7.
Let's assume
people were in the original group of winners as x
A group of winning ticket holders share equally 90,000,000 lottery
Before the money is divided, three more winning ticket holders are declared
so, total number of winning tickes =x+3
each persons share is reduced to 5,000,000
so, total money =5,000,000*(x+3)
and this must be equal to total money

now, we can solve for x
and we get

Subtrac both sides by 3


so,
number of people were in the original group of winners is 15 ...........Answer