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If
, then what is the value of x ?
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- 00:01
Okay match members We've got another drill for you If
- 00:05
two thirds Acts minus 5 is 19 then what's x
- 00:14
All right Well it really seems unfair that x is
- 00:16
always in the limelight here Like what Effects shy What
- 00:19
about good old Oh yeah it's not its fault It
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- 00:21
looks like zero Well we at least know that being
- 00:23
so prominently featured in math problems means that the life
- 00:26
of x is a lonely one With great fame comes
- 00:28
great loneliness And the first step in solving any equation
- 00:31
is toe isolate or make lonely the variable which we
- 00:34
can accomplish here by adding five to both sides And
- 00:37
it looks like that on that gets us What is
- 00:39
that Two thirds x equals nineteen plus five or twenty
- 00:43
fourth Two thirds Acts 24 All right well we're one
- 00:46
thirds ex short That's embarrassing Find the value of axe
- 00:49
Multiply both sides by the reciprocal of two thirds or
- 00:52
three abs So if we do that we get twenty
- 00:55
four times three Have that seventy two over to and
- 00:59
what is that Thirty six So that's it Exit thirty
- 01:01
six answers e And we're done
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