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Vocabulary
Solve for a Given Variable
Word Problems
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8x=48
x=6
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3x-4=11
x=5
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In the following equation, what is the variable? 7y-4=3
y
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x+4, when x=5
9
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Three times a number is twelve
x=4
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x-19=34
x=53
200
2x-7=35
x=21
200
What is the coefficient in the following equation?: 3m=12
3
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x-8, when x=29
21
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Two times a number plus 3 is seventeen
x=7
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7+x=28
x=21
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-3x+4=16
x=-4
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When solving an equation, what are you solving for?
The variable.
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3x-8, when x=4
4
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Four times a number minus six is thirty-eight.
x=11
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x-9.3=3.1
x=12.4
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11n+1=67
n=6
400
What does it mean to isolate the variable?
Getting the variable alone on one side of the equation.
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x/4+7, when x=12
3
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A number divided by two plus three is fifteen.
x=24
500
47+x=91
x=44
500
x/5 - 6 = 12
x=90
500
What is the inverse operation of multiplication?
Division.
500
13-x/5, when x=30
7
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A number divided by four minus seven is twenty-one.
x=112