Sera orders cowboy hats online for a party. They cost $9.95 each with a shipping fee of $6.95. Sera recently paid $225.85 for some cowboy hats.
Write an equation to find the number of cowboy hats Sera ordered. Then find the
number of cowboy hats she ordered.

You are solving for x here. To solve for x you need to isolate it onto one side of the equation. First multiply -4 into (-6x - 3) to get 24x + 12. Now that you have a simplified equation on both sides, subtract 12 from both sides to get 24x = 0. Because anything multiplied by 0 equals 0, x = 0.