Posted by bailey on Friday, December 10, 2010 at 8:10am.
x represents whatever it was defined as in the particular question.
Without knowing what the question was, I cannot tell
Did you mean "solve for x" ?
then....
3x + 5 = 2x - 12
3x - 2x = -12 - 5
x = -17
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