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Linear equations

Isolating an unknown by doing the same thing to both sides.

The idea

The whole skill is one idea — whatever you do to one side you do to the other — applied in the right order. Undo addition before multiplication, because that is the reverse of the order the expression was built in.

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Questions (6)

Question Type Difficulty Drift Accuracy
Solve for x: 3x + 5 = 20 numeric Easy -1.33 +0.27 0% (1)
Solve for x: 4(x − 3) = 2x + 6 numeric Easy -1.10 — — (0)
Solve for x: (x + 2)/3 − (x − 1)/4 = 1 mcq Moderate -0.40 — — (0)
Solve for x: 2(x + 1) = 2x + 2. Then explain what your result means. short Moderate 0.30 — — (0)
A phone plan costs £12 per month plus 8p per minute. Another costs £20 per month with unlimited minutes. At ho… numeric Hard 0.60 — — (0)
Solve for x: (2x − 1)/(x + 3) = 3 (x ≠ −3) numeric Hard 1.20 — — (0)