Question 774107
"THE four steps"?  Exactly four steps?  


-13x-4+3x=14-x as given.
!  Add +x to both sides.
!  Add +4 to both sides.  Perform any simplifications.
!  Combine all like-terms of x, (reverse of distributive property). Perform any simplifications.
!  Multiply both sides by the multiplicative inverse of the coefficient on x.


Yes, those are four steps.