Question

4/ 3 = 8/ x-14 over 3 = 8 over x-1

Answer 1

Solve for x:

$\frac{4}{3}=\frac{8}{x-1}$

To solve this, we are going to use inverse operations to solve equations:

$\begin{gathered} 4\cdot(x-1)=8\cdot3 \\ 4x-4=24 \\ 4x=24+4 \\ 4x=28 \\ x=\frac{28}{4} \\ x=7 \end{gathered}$