How do you solve $0.5(2x+8)=x-4$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2017-01-08T09:11:02

See explanation.

$0.5(x+8)=x-4$

First step is to multiply the expression in brackets on the left side by $0.5$ :

Now we can move the unknown $x$ to left side and the numbers to right side:

The last equality is false, so the original equation has no solutions.