How do you solve $x/12 - 1/3=5/6$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2016-03-07T05:33:22

$x=14$

Let us first multiply each component of the equation by $12$ (LCM of denominators, $12,3,6$ ). Hence equation becomes

$x/12xx12−1/3xx12=5/6xx12$ or

$x-4=10$ . Transposing $4$ to other side, we get

$x=10+4=14$

How do you solve x/12 - 1/3=5/6x/12 - 1/3=5/6?