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Leonardo is solving the equation 4 (x minus one-fifth) = 2 and two-thirds. His work is shown. Where is his error?

Leonardo is solving the equation 4 (x minus one-fifth) = 2 and two-thirds. His work is shown. Where is his error?
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Leonardo is solving the equation 4 (x minus one-fifth) = 2 and two-thirds. His work is shown. Where is his error?

Leonardo is solving the equation 4 (x minus one-fifth) = 2 and two-thirds. His work-example-1
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User Danthar
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his error is on step 3. he has to multiply 5 by 3 to get to 15 but he must do that on the top of the equation as well.
he did 4 x 4 = 16
but he needed to do 4 x 3 = 12

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