C. ax + bx = 10
i need , i am going into hs and don't understand how to solve this. this is summer hw

with .

Step-by-step explanation:

So we have:

and we are solving for .

We want to get all terms that have x on one side and all terms without x on the opposing side.  This is actually already done.

Now we are going to factor the side that has the x's.  We are going to factor x out.

Now you have a number times x and you want x by itself. The inverse operation of multiplication is division. So we are going to divide both sides by :

You could probably stop here but just in case....

can't be 0 because then you would have 10/0 which is not a number.

So if we solve we can find out what we don't want and b to be:

Subtract b on both sides:

So we we don't want and to be the same value.

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