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An environmental safety officer uses the equation 5x=−275x = -27 to determine the average temperature change across 5 monitoring stations that recorded a total drop of 27 degrees. True or False: To isolate the variable xx using the Division Property of Equality, both sides of the equation must be divided by 5.

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