Posted by Jameisha on Tuesday, December 2, 2008 at 9:04pm.
the distributive property does not enter the picture here
3w-1-4w=4-2w
3w-4w+2w = 4+1
w = 5
I surely hope they didn't mean to have you solve it like this :
3w-4w+2w = 4+1
w(3-4+2) = 5
w(1) = 5
w = 5 ?????
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