From the course: Learning Algebra: Solving Equations
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Solution: Use an organizer to solve multistep equations
From the course: Learning Algebra: Solving Equations
Solution: Use an organizer to solve multistep equations
- These are your three solution for worksheet number 11. If your answers don't match my answers, continue watching and I'll walk you step by step through every equation. Let's walk through this solution for letter A together. You may have used your organizer and that's perfectly fine. Step one, ask about fractions. So, does our equation have fractions? And that answer is yes. So we need to get rid of these fractions by multiplying by four. So on both sides, we're going to show that we need to multiply by four. And again, let's re-write the equation so that we leave room to show that we're going to multiply by four. This will help to simply your fractions. So we're just going to leave a little bit of room in front of each term. And now let's go back and show that we're going to multiply by four. Okay, let's multiply. Four times three fours, my fours will simplify and I'm left with three. So it's three times a quantity, x minus eight minus four times four is 16, is that 16 x. Four times…
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