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How did you multiply x+ 5 by 9 and get x+5?
Answer provided by our tutors
We multiplied both sides of the equation by '9', not just x+5:

So we get:

How did you multiply x+ 5 by 9 and get x+5?
We multiplied both sides of the equation by '9', not just x+5:

So we get:

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