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Oct 18, 2016

$x = 1$ $x =1$

Explanation:

We could remove the bracket by multiplying by $\frac{3}{2}$ $3/2$ , However, we are trying to isolate $x$ $x$ , not to complicate it.

multiply both sides by $\frac{2}{3}$ $2/3$ instead to isolate the bracket

$\frac{2}{3} \times \frac{3}{2} (x - 5) = - 6 \times \frac{2}{3}$ $color(red)(2/3xx)3/2(x-5) = -6xx 2/3$

$x - 5 = - 4 \leftarrow$ $x-5 = -4" "larr$ add 5 to both sides

$x = - 4 + 5$ $x = -4+5$

$x = 1$ $x = 1$

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