Step 1) Multiply 2 by 3
<em>5x+6 = 2x+3x+6</em>
Step 2) Combine like terms
<em>5x+6 = 5x+6</em>
Step 3) Add 5x and 6 to both sides
Answer:
<em>0 = 0</em>
A blue whale weight = 200 short tons (400,000 pounds)
A african elephant weight = 3 tons (9,000 pounds)
And then you would minus the tons and get your answer
hope this helped :)
Like terms are terms whose variables are the same. In this case, 7 and 2 have no coefficients therefore are like terms. For example, 7x and 2x would both be like terms because they have the same coefficient which is x.
Negative since the answer would be -13