Equations with x on both sides

Difficulty Stretch · Set pn4dp2

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1
Solve for x:16x=12x+52x =
2
Solve for x:14x=9x+110x =
3
Solve for x:13x=9x+84x =
4
Solve for x:17x=7x+70x =
5
Solve for x:17x=9x+120x =
6
Solve for x:6x=4x+38x =
7
Solve for x:15x=8x+35x =
8
Solve for x:6x=2x+28x =
9
Solve for x:4x=2x+24x =
10
Solve for x:15x=13x+20x =
11
Solve for x:11x=2x+72x =
12
Solve for x:18x=3x+270x =
13
Solve for x:16x=4x+96x =
14
Solve for x:18x=9x+171x =
15
Solve for x:12x=2x+210x =
16
Solve for x:10x=8x+36x =
17
Solve for x:19x=11x+16x =
18
Solve for x:5x=2x+42x =
19
Solve for x:12x=6x+102x =
20
Solve for x:4x=2x+38x =

What is in this set

The numbers in this set run from 2 to 374.
Every problem in it will have the unknown on both sides.
A careful solution takes 3 written steps on average.
The mistake this set invites most often, in 100% of the problems: the x terms were never gathered.
Answers are a whole number.

Drawing 240 problems from this page produced 227 different ones, 95% — so a sheet of 20 is a new sheet almost every time.

The same skill, harder or easier

We would put this in front of a grade 8 class. That is our judgement, not a standard, and it is printed here so you can disagree with it. Everything else we put in that year.