SOLUTION: I am trying to help a friend with her homework, but we have both hit a brick wall, can someone send us the process to solve the following equation? 2/5(10x+25)=-10-4(x+3) Thank y

Question 14240: I am trying to help a friend with her homework, but we have both hit a brick wall, can someone send us the process to solve the following equation?
2/5(10x+25)=-10-4(x+3)
Thank you so much for your help.
Patty & Sunshine
Answer by Alwayscheerful(414) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
First and formost, you need to know your Order of Operatoins
A cool way to remember it is:
Please
Excuse
My
Dear
Aunt
Sally
It stands for:
Paranthases
Exponents
Multiplication
Division
Addition
Subtraction
And so your problem is:
2/5(10x+25)=-10-4(x+3)
You first need to do Distributive Property to get rid of the parenthesis
4x+10 = -10-4x-12
The only thing I did was distribute the 2/5 to the 10x and 25 and the -4 to the x and 3
Then you isolate the X's by moving some things around.
8x=-10-10-12
*Remember when you move things across the equal sign, you MUST switch the sign
Then just solve
8x=-32
X=-4
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