
### Instruction: help me answer this question What is the value of x in the following equation: 3x - 7 = 20?, think step by step
### Assistant: To find the value of x, we need to isolate it on one side of the equation. We can do this by adding 7 to both sides of the equation to get 3x = 27, and then dividing both sides by 3 to get x = 9. , The answer is The value of x is 9.
