How do you solve $6.2h+5-1.4h=4.8h+5$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2018-03-19T08:19:01

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Move everything to one side of the equal sign and combine the terms. The answer turns out to be an infinite number of solution.

$6.2h+5-1.4h=4.8h+5$

$6.2h+5-1.4h-4.8h-5=0$

$6.2h-1.4h-4.8h+5-5=0$

$6.2h-6.2h+5-5=0$

$0+0=0$

$0 =0$

Since $0=0$ all the time, you have infinitely many solutions for $h$ .

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