Suppose there are 387 balls in the gym. if each been going to hold 48 balls, estimate the number of bins that will be needed to hold all the balls

You move the constant to the right side and change its sign to be 9z= -6 -8. that’s the first step.the second step would be calculate the difference of -8-6 to get -14. you equation should now be 9z=-14the last step is to divide both sides by 9 to get z=-14/9hope this

Let smaller number be 2x , then the nest even number will be 2x + 2so   2x + 4(2x + 2) = 582x + 8x + 8 = 5810x = 50x = 5  so the first number is 2*5   = 10 and second one is 12