This math worksheet was created on 2017-02-25 and has been viewed 85 times this week and 355 times this month. It may be printed downloaded or saved and used in your classroom home school or other. In general in order to solve an equation you want to get the variable by itself by undoing any operations that are being applied to it.
Throw the minus in there to make it a little bit tougher.
To solve a linear equation using the substitution method first isolate the value of one variable from any of the equations. Y2 3 x. This is the same thing as saying 5 times question mark equals 20. This form is sometimes called the standard form of a linear equation.