What is x if 2x equals 39?

Your problem is 2x = 39. To figure out what x is, you first have to get rid of the 2 that is attached to the x. To get get rid of it, you have to do the opposite. In this case, that means you have to divide both sides by two. When I put parathesis around it, that means I'm dividing the whole thing by two. (2x = 39) / 2 = 19.5 So that means x=19.5