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Can anyone help me solve this equation? $$5.4b-14=8b+38$$

I got $b=15$ remainder $5$

but I am not sure if this is correct.

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    Don't you think that a remainder is somewhat out of place in the answer to a problem in which the input coefficients are decimal fractions? *15 remainder 5* is not a number. Citing a remainder only ever makes sense if we know what number was divided by. For instance $10 \over 3$ is $3$, remainder $1$. Since we know that we divided by $3$ (it is plainly stated before the remainder) then "remainder $1$" tells us that the fractional part is $1/3$. That is, ${10\over 3} = {3 {1\over 3}}$ If we don't know what we divided by, it could mean anything.2012-04-25

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