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ACT Aspire Math: Solving for x when It's in the Denominator
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If , then what is the value of x ?


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Okay match members We've got another drill for you If

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two thirds Acts minus 5 is 19 then what's x

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All right Well it really seems unfair that x is

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always in the limelight here Like what Effects shy What

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about good old Oh yeah it's not its fault It

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looks like zero Well we at least know that being

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so prominently featured in math problems means that the life

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of x is a lonely one With great fame comes

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great loneliness And the first step in solving any equation

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is toe isolate or make lonely the variable which we

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can accomplish here by adding five to both sides And

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it looks like that on that gets us What is

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that Two thirds x equals nineteen plus five or twenty

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fourth Two thirds Acts 24 All right well we're one

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thirds ex short That's embarrassing Find the value of axe

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Multiply both sides by the reciprocal of two thirds or

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three abs So if we do that we get twenty

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four times three Have that seventy two over to and

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what is that Thirty six So that's it Exit thirty

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six answers e And we're done

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