A positive number
This is because you must add to get from a negative number in order to get to a positive number.
We want to get rid of the stuff in the denomenator
gcd of the denomenator is 2x
but wait, we can get rid of the deonmenator in the numerator by multiplying by 4x
muliplty the whole thing by 4x/4x
we get
The second equation because they all have a common factor of 3. You can get x by itself. However, with the first one, you'll end up with fractions instead.