How Do You Solve Simple Linear Equations?
Whether you are in middle school, high school or even college, you will quickly learn that knowing how to solving equations is essential to any mathematics class. The majority of applications in mathematics will end up in an equation, and you will have to be able to solve that equation in order to answer the original problem. By going over the steps to solving two different linear equations, you will get a better understanding of how they are solved. The two different equations will be in forms ax + b = c and ax – b = c, where a, b and c will be replaced by numeric values and x represents the variable you will be solving for. For the purpose of teaching this procedure, the following examples will be used: 5x + 3 = 13 and 4x – 1 = 11. Write the equation 5x + 3 = 13 on your paper. Think logically, and work to remove the 3 from the equation. This is done by subtracting 3 from each side of the equation: 5x + 3 – 3 = 13 – 3. By doing this to the equations, you will successfully cancel out t
