Consider this equation:4(3x−2)=−24 Part 1. What is your first step in solving this equation? Remember, there is more than one way to solve this equation.Part 2. How would you isolate the variable and solve for x after you have completed Part 1?You do not need to solve the problem

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Consider this equation:4(3x−2)=−24 Part 1. What is your first step in solving this equation?  Remember, there is more than one way to solve this equation.Part 2. How would you isolate the variable and solve for x after you have completed Part 1?You do not need to solve the problem

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Part 1: The first step in solving this equation is to distribute the 4 to both terms inside the parentheses. Part 2: After distributing the 4, we simplify the equation and then isolate the variable by undoing the operations applied to it. In this case, we would first add 8 to both sides to eliminate the -2 on the left side of the equation. Then, we divide both sides by 12 to isolate the variable x and find its value.