So for these problems you just need to get all x values on one side of the equal sign. Since this has just an x and not other x values we can leave the x there on the left. Now subtract 5 on both sides to get rid of the 5 on left side of the equals sign. Subtract 5 on the right side too because anything that you do on the left side, you do on the right side as well. It should look like this now:
[tex]x+5=7\\ \\ x=7-5\\ \\ x=2[/tex]
Hope this helps!
