Lesson 2.

4
Solving for a Variable
Main Goal:

We want to move the variables all to one

side and the constants all to the other.

Ex:
We would like to turn something like

3x+4=13 into x=3

How do we do this?
We want to keep our equation balanced at all
times
In other words, we want to make sure we do
the same operation on both sides of the
equation:
Ex: x+3= 5
−3 −3
x=2
Example
5 x − 7 = 23
+7 +7
5 x = 30
÷5 ÷5
x=6