Question

http://gyazo.com/896cfd9e78e0b4f4f78e871fa8d410dd
Solve for s

Answer 1

\[-12s=-11s+4\]

Lets do this together.

Answer 2

okay

Answer 3

@iambatman

Answer 4

Lol, you didn't have to tag me I was gone to help someone for like 10 seconds haha.

Anyways,

start off by adding + 11 on both sides, what do you get?

Answer 5

+11s I should specify

Answer 6

-1

Answer 7

and 0

Answer 8

If you mean

\[-1s = 4\]

Yes.

Now divide -1 on both sides.

Answer 9

oh

Answer 10

be -4 right? so s=4-?

Answer 11

-4

Answer 12

yes s = -4

Answer 13

how do you know which numbers to add at first?

Answer 14

add the smaller variable out of the 2?

Answer 15

Well what you want to do is, get all the ones with the variables to one side. So you want all the s's on one side and just the numbers on the other.

Answer 16

http://gyazo.com/2b7b736f1d810484c1ecefdfce612a24

Answer 17

so how do i do that?

Answer 18

what do i do first?

Answer 19

Move all the integers with s on the left side, and move the ones with just the "number" to the right, does that make sense?

Answer 20

so add -6 to both?

Answer 21

so it would be 1

Answer 22

wait
-13

Answer 23

No you want to add 6s to both sides, and add 14 on both sides.

Answer 24

In math we usually like to move the ones with the variable to the left side, but it's really arbitrary, but we've been doing it forever so we'll still with it.

Answer 25

so i have -13 then i add 14 to it?

Answer 26

-13?

Answer 27

-7+-6