Kayla is thinking of a 3-digit number. * It is divisible by 18. * It is a palindrome (It reads the same left-to-right as it does right-to-left, like 252 and 848). * It is one less than a multiple of 5. What is Kayla’s number?

Step-by-step explanation:

Let the number be aba as it is a palindrome

It divisible by 18, so it is an even number with sum of digits divisible to 9

It is one less than a multiple of 5:

Multiple of 5 will end with 0 or 5, it has to be 5 as a is even, then:

The number 4b4 is divisible by 9 only if b = 1:

So the number is:

Lets verify:

d, x=8

step-by-step explanation:

simplifying

4x + -5 = 2x + 11

reorder the terms:

-5 + 4x = 2x + 11

reorder the terms:

-5 + 4x = 11 + 2x

solving

-5 + 4x = 11 + 2x

solving for variable 'x'.

move all terms containing x to the left, all other terms to the right.

add '-2x' to each side of the equation.

-5 + 4x + -2x = 11 + 2x + -2x

combine like terms: 4x + -2x = 2x

-5 + 2x = 11 + 2x + -2x

combine like terms: 2x + -2x = 0

-5 + 2x = 11 + 0

-5 + 2x = 11

add '5' to each side of the equation.

-5 + 5 + 2x = 11 + 5

combine like terms: -5 + 5 = 0

0 + 2x = 11 + 5

2x = 11 + 5

combine like terms: 11 + 5 = 16

2x = 16

divide each side by '2'.