Learning Algebra 1 at HOME!

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Originally Posted by Jessweeee♪

Ooops....I knew that. Hey, I got the method right anyway!


It's mistakes like these that's making me fail my math course! I know what I'm doing, but I just put something stupid like a minus sign where a plus should be :jess:

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If you were a rocket enginner they'd all be dead now!!!:mad2:

That's why in the military, if you fold even one shirt wrong, they'll throw out your entire wardrobe and you have to refold it. It's not that they care if your underwear is in the right place, but if you read directions and do algorithms right. :D

Well, first you take it to dinner and buy it a drink. Then you drive it around for awhile till it wants to go home. Once there it will lose its answers to you. You stud you. Yeah, combine like terms. No other way because that's the simplest way.

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Originally Posted by Hambone

I could easily simplify this problem using the steps they show in my algebra book, but how would YOU guys simplify it? I'm just really looking for some alternate solutions here.

-2z + 3 + 4z -17 + 20

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3-17= -14 + 20 = 6

-2z + 4z = 2z

2z=6

z= 3

of course I simplified it more you can just say 2z+6.

IT won't be negative 6 because there is no way you can get negative 6 out of it.

of course remember if you want to solve z you have to do this

2z+6= 0

2z=6
z=3