Question

-3y+6=-54

solve the problem step by step

Answer 1

Bring 6 to the right side,sign changes.

-3y+6=-54
-3y=-54+6

Answer 2

-60/-3 = 20

Answer 3

-54-6*

Answer 4

How does the sign change?

Answer 5

Sign changes when you shift values to other side.

Answer 6

this one was a easy one

Answer 7

Incorrect.

Answer 8

-3y=-54-6
-3y=-60

Answer 9

sign changes with add and subrtraction

Answer 10

Pakistani teachers skip one step and teach us wrong too.

Answer 11

-3y+6=-54
SUBTRACT 6 FROM BOTH SIDES

-3y+6=-54
-6 -6
--- ----
-3y + 0 = -60

-3y = -60
DIVIDE BOTH SIDES BY -3

-3y = -60
---- ----
-3 -3

y = 20

Answer 12

-3y+6=-54

We actually add '-6' on both sides. Making it:

-3y+6-6 = -54 - 6
Then in the next step:
-3y = -60

Answer 13

There^ The apple guy did it.

Answer 14

Well both ways are correct..

Answer 15

Incorrect, again.

Answer 16

I did the way i'm taught..and i was right.

Answer 17

-3y+6=-54
-3y=-54-6
-3y=-60
y=-60/-3
y=20.

Answer 18

We, here, aren't taught that step.

Answer 19

You actually change the sign when you add the same term with different signs on both sides.

Answer 20

@uri what do you mean by "sign changes"?? I don't seem to understand that concept.

Answer 21

When we shift a value before or after = sign,the sign changes.That's what i'm taught like this,
4x-25=23-2x
2x+4x=23+25

Answer 22

Uri, that's what i'm saying. We aren't taught that step which i showed you. I too didn't know about it before.

Answer 23

Okay now i know...

Answer 24

But this way also we get the answer correct...no?

Answer 25

The point is not to get the correct answer. The point is to know HOW to arrive to that answer.