Hi,         

Applying the Distributive Principle and combining like terms..

will result in isolating x on one side of the equation, thus solving for x.

  4x+5=3(x-1)  

 | Applying the distributive Principle

  4x + 5 =  3x - 3   

Proceeding to combine like terms and isolate x on one side of the equation

  | subtracting 3x from both sides of the equation

  4x -3x + 5 =  3x -3x - 3  

       x + 5 = -3    

  | Subtracting 5 from both sides of the equation

     x + 5 - 5 = -3 - 5

         x = -8  

Always feel free to post questions of a general nature with an example,

as You did here.   

Answer by Fombitz(32388)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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