The answer is A because you would have to divide. In this equation, we are doing multiplication so we have to do the inverse operation which would be division. We are trying to get x by itself so we would have to divide each side by 3. If you do that to each side, the left side would be left as just x, and the right side of the equation would be -9 because -27 divided by 3 would equal -9. Hope this helps!