How do you solve $-13=5+x$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2018-06-03T20:38:18

$x=-18$

Our only step would be to subtract $5$ from both sides to undo the operation being applied to $x$ . Doing this, we get

$x=-18$

We can plug in our answer for $x$ to check this solution. We have

$-13=5+color(lime)(x)$

$-13=5+color(lime)((-18))$

$-13=-13$

Hope this helps!

How do you solve -13=5+x-13=5+x?