Question

What is the inverse of the equation y = 5x - 1?

Answer 1

y = 5x - 1
x = 5y - 1
f^-1 = 5y - 1 i think?

Answer 2

hmm no

Answer 3

\[y=5x-1\] means multiply by 5, subtract 1
do the inverse operations in the opposite order
like if you were going to solve
\[5x-1=12\] what would you do?

Answer 4

divide both sides by 5x

Answer 5

no, not if you want to solve
\[5x-1=12\] the first step would not be to divide

Answer 6

5x+11?

Answer 7

lets go slow

Answer 8

suppose you had an elementary algebra problem that said
"solve for \(x\) if \(5x-1=12\)
it would take two steps to solve this problem for \(x\)
any idea how you would do this?