SOLUTION: -4.0x + 2.7 - 1.6x = -4.6x + 2.7 Please can you show me how to work this out, step by step. It is very confusing. Thank you.

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Question 653310: -4.0x + 2.7 - 1.6x = -4.6x + 2.7
Please can you show me how to work this out, step by step. It is very confusing. Thank you.

Found 2 solutions by Shana-D77, MathLover1:
Answer by Shana-D77(132) (Show Source):
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See how 2.7 is being added to both sides? This will make this equation false. For example:
5x + 15 = 3x + 15
5x = 3x (subtracted 15 from both sides)
This is an impossible statement. We can't multiply the same number (x) by 5 and by 3 and have the results be equal to each other.

So the answer to your equation -4.0x + 2.7 - 1.6x = -4.6x + 2.7 is NO SOLUTION.

Answer by MathLover1(20850) (Show Source):
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......first add terms that contain on the left side

...now cancel on both sides

..now add to the both sides

.....now multiply both sides by