What are the steps needed to solve the following problem: (2x - 3)(x + 4) = -5?

These are the steps.

1. Write out the equation.

2. FInd any whole numbers and put them together and find any variables and put them together, both in parentheses.

3. Solve both equations in parentheses.

4. Divide -5 by 3 to find x. The answer is on step 5.

for this case we have the following expression:

to solve, we rewrite the expression as:

we apply double c and we have:

thus, the quotient is 48.

so, patel found a wrong ratio and the multiplication was incorrect.

option d