SOLUTION: {{{x/(x-2) = 4/5}}}

Question 638490:
Answer by josh_jordan(263) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
When you have a fraction on both sides of an equal sign, and those fractions contain letters, to solve, just cross multiply:
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Use the distributive property to multiply the 4 by what's in the parenthesis on the left side of the equation:
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So, now you have

We need to get the x by itself, so first we will subtract 4x from both sides, which gives us:

This gives us our final answer:

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