SOLUTION: Ok, I am in 7th grade pre-algebra but whenever my teacher talks I don't understand half of what he is saying. I have looked on numerous web pages, and I came across this one. My qu

Question 116672: Ok, I am in 7th grade pre-algebra but whenever my teacher talks I don't understand half of what he is saying. I have looked on numerous web pages, and I came across this one. My question is:
3x (divided by) 2-2=7 This may seem easy but I have no idea what to do. Please help as much as you can. Thank you anyway!
~Student
Answer by MathLover1(20850) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

........... we can write like
...........since you have a fraction on the left, first what you need is to eliminate denominator
You can do it if you multiply by all terms on both sides of equal sign.
............we can write this as:

.......move to the right; doing it, it will change a sign

......now divide both sides by in order to have

you can check your result if you plug in in:
...........

..... since left side of equal sign is same as the right side, it means is your solution

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