Question

you bought a magazine for $5 and 4 erasers you spent a total of $25 how much did the eraser cost let x represent the number of erasers

Answer 1

X= 5 The equation is 5+4x= 25

Answer 2

thus equation can be seen as
$25 = 5 + 4x$
which means you would have to first subtract the $5 from $25 because that's just thw notebook cost and not the erasers so you would end with
$20 = 4x$
now you would divide 4x from 20 and end with a result of
$5 = x$