SOLUTION: 1.)can you please help me solve the equation 3(6x + 5)= 9(2x + 3) -1 ? 2.)can you please help me solve the equation 4(2x + 5) + 6x + 21 ?

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Question 562582: 1.)can you please help me solve the equation 3(6x + 5)= 9(2x + 3) -1 ?
2.)can you please help me solve the equation 4(2x + 5) + 6x + 21 ?

Answer by solver91311(24713)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!


Let's deal with #2 first: In the first place it is not an equation. It doesn't have an equals sign in it any where. In the second place, the instructions for posting are quite clear about one problem per post.

Now for #1:



Use the distributive property to remove the parentheses:



Add to both sides and collect like terms:



Which is absurd. Therefore the solution set is the empty set.

John

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