Given a parallelogram, solve for x.
Check the final answer first, then review the worked steps.
Check the final answer first, then review the worked steps.
In parallelogram SALE, opposite sides are equal. Thus, $SA = EL$ and $SE = AL$. We are given $SA=3$ and $EL=3$, which is consistent. We set $SE = AL$, so $3x+4 = 5x-6$. Solving for x, we get $2x = 10$, so $x=5$.