Given the equation y = 3x − 4, what is the value of x when y = 5?

Alright so lets break this down!

What we are looking at is:

y = 3x - 4

the question is

what is the value of x when y = 5?

This means all we have to do is plug in 5 for y and solve for x

y = 5

x = ?

therefore,

5 = 3x - 4

Now some algebra,

5 + 4 = 3x

9 = 3x

9/3 = x

3 = x

Now our concluding statement:

The value of x is 3 when y is equal to 5

Sometimes all you have to do is turn words into numbers and numbers into words!

Good luck! I hope this was helpful.

stew reads at the fastest rate of 265 words per minute.

step-by-step explanation:

it's a given that felicia reads at 260 word per minute and on connie's graph we can see that she reads 200 words per minute. since stew's table tells us that he read 795 in 3 minutes, we can divide 795 by 3 to find out how many words he reads per minute.

795/3 = 265

stew reads 265 words per minute - he reads at the fastest rate since felecia reads at 260 words per minute and connie reads at 200 words per minute.

stew (265) > felecia (260) > connie (200)