How do you simplify 3x, x=5

Idont get this question can someone me solve it? ** the distance light travels in one second (1 light second) is about 1.86 ×10^5 mi. saturn is about 475 light-seconds from the sun. about how many miles from the sun is saturn..my guess is 8.83* 10^7 you so much

Aman is 6 feet 3 inches tall. the top of his shadow touches a fire hydrant that is 13 feet 6 inches away. what is the angle of elevation from the base of the fire hydrant to the top of the man's head?

Need now max recorded the heights of 500 male humans. he found that the heights were normally distributed around a mean of 177 centimeters. which statements about max’s data must be true? a) the median of max’s data is 250 b) more than half of the data points max recorded were 177 centimeters. c) a data point chosen at random is as likely to be above the mean as it is to be below the mean. d) every height within three standard deviations of the mean is equally likely to be chosen if a data point is selected at random.