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anabel

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Registered: 2008-06-15

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i cannot understand!

can someone please walk me through this problem? i've been trying to work through this for the past 5 hours and my brain is fried
3/4 – 5= 2/3

the x is located in between the 3/4 (the pc would not allow me to place it strategicaly so) and the other x is located between the 2/3.

hope that makes sense???

ZHero

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Registered: 2008-06-08

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Re: i cannot understand!

Where's 'x'??
Don't you think you missed something while posting this...?

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mathsyperson

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Re: i cannot understand!

So I'm guessing your question is this:

To solve this, you first separate all terms with an x from the terms without one:

Then turn the two fractions on the left into one fraction:

Finally, get x on its own:

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anabel

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Registered: 2008-06-15

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Re: i cannot understand!

thank you so much for your responses but the x is placed in the middle of 3/4, so where the minus sign is, that's where the x is placed...does that make it clearer? sorry for the confusion...

ZHero

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Re: i cannot understand!

Even then, it means the same as mathsyperson said..
It actually means 3/4 times x which is 3x/4
Hope u got it!!

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anabel

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Registered: 2008-06-15

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Re: i cannot understand!

thank you both so much!
have a wonderful weekend!