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8. Equations of Circles

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Exercise 53 Page 781

Remember that we need to distribute 5 to each term inside the parentheses.

Step 1

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We are asked to solve the following equation.

5(x-4)=16 Our first step will be to use the Distributive Property. Let's notice that we need to distribute 5 to each term inside the parentheses. &5(x-4) = 5x-4 * & 5(x-4)=5x-20 ✓ As we can see, in our exercise, the mistake appears in Step 1.

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