Solving Linear Equations - Fractions

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Add 7 2 tobothsides Notice we will need to get a common denominator to add 5 6 + 7 2. Notice we have a common denominator of 6. So we build up the denominator, 7 2 3 3 = 21 6, and we can now add the fractions: 3 4 x − 21 6 = 5 6 Sameproblem, withcommondenominator6 + 21 6 + 21 6 Add 21 6 tobothsides 3 4 x = 26 6 Reduce 26 6 to 13 3 3 4 x = 13 ...

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