SOLUTION: Can you please help me solve this equation and show workings, I am just not understanding it. 7a-4=4a+19

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Question 449179: Can you please help me solve this equation and show workings, I am just not understanding it.
7a-4=4a+19

Answer by ewatrrr(24785)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
 
Hi
I. Combining Like terms
II. Isolating variable a on one side of the equation
7a-4 = 4a+19 |Combining Like terms
3a = 23 |Isolating 'unknown a' on one side of the equation
a = 23/3 OR 7 2/3 |Reading the solution!
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