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What does a equals if 4a plus 24 equals 72?

Updated: 8/20/2019
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If 4a+24=72 then you start out by subtracting 24 from both sides because what you do to one side of the equation you must do to the other. That means that 4a+24-24=72-24. So 4a=48. Now you divide both sides by 4 and you get a=12.

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