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-40x+40-20x=20
Subtract 20x from both sides.
-60x+40=20
Combine -40x and -20x to get -60x.
-60x=20-40
Subtract 40 from both sides.
-60x=-20
Subtract 40 from 20 to get -20.
x=\frac{-20}{-60}
Divide both sides by -60.
x=\frac{1}{3}
Reduce the fraction \frac{-20}{-60} to lowest terms by extracting and canceling out -20.