{"id":18351,"date":"2026-05-03T03:55:42","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T21:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/solve-linear-equation-with-fractions-81\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T03:55:42","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T21:55:42","slug":"solve-linear-equation-with-fractions-81","status":"publish","type":"mcq","link":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/solve-linear-equation-with-fractions-81\/","title":{"rendered":"Solve Linear Equation With Fractions 81"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Solve for x: 8x &#8211; 5\/3 = -169\/15.<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"quiz-options wp-block-list\">\n<li>-1\/5<\/li>\n<li>-6\/5<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","topic":[2705,2506,2706],"subject":[1425],"education_level":[1894],"class_list":["post-18351","mcq","type-mcq","status-publish","hentry","topic-algebra","topic-fractions","topic-linear-equations","subject-mathematics","education_level-grade-8"],"mcq_note":"Subtract -5\/3 from both sides to isolate the variable term: 8x = -48\/5. Dividing both sides by 8 gives x = -6\/5. Fractions are acceptable answers when the equation does not simplify to a whole number.","mcq_options":[{"right":"no","answer":"-1\/5"},{"right":"yes","answer":"-6\/5"}],"multi_answers":"no","subject_terms":[{"id":1425,"title":"Mathematics","slug":"mathematics"}],"topic_terms":[{"id":2705,"title":"Algebra","slug":"algebra"},{"id":2506,"title":"Fractions","slug":"fractions"},{"id":2706,"title":"Linear Equations","slug":"linear-equations"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mcq\/18351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mcq"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/mcq"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=18351"},{"taxonomy":"subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subject?post=18351"},{"taxonomy":"education_level","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/education_level?post=18351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}