How do you simplify #6y + 14= - 7- y#?
1 Answer
Explanation:
We have:
Two things here - first off, so long as we do the same operation to both sides of the equation, we can do whatever we want mathematically and the two sides will still be equal.
The second thing is that we want to get the
Let's do this!
We can add
and it simplifies to:
We're almost there. Now we just need to divide both sides by 7:
And now let's show that after all that, the solution works: