How to solve two-step equations - Math

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Solve for if

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To solve for we must get all of the numbers on the other side of the equation of .

When solving a simple two-step equation we must remove the numbers that are interacting with in this order: Addition/Subtraction, Multiplication/Division, Exponents.

To do this in a problem where is being multiplied by a number, we must divide both sides of the equation by the number.

In this case the number is so we divide each side of the equation by to make it look like this

Our new problem will look like this

We then must solve the polynomial.

To solve an equation with we must take the square root of each side of the equation to get by itself.

Doing this makes our problem look like

Then we perform the square root to get the answer

Remember that can also equal so our answer will be both positive and negative.

The final answer is .

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