SOLUTION: Y-wy=m solve for y

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Question 1093132: Y-wy=m solve for y
Answer by greenestamps(13200)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

Step 1: get all the terms containing y, and ONLY those terms, together on one side of the equation. In your formula, this is already done.



Step 2: factor out the common factor of y:


Do you see how to solve for y from there?

It might be hard to see the first few times you work a problem where you have to do this last step. But it's just like going from

to


What do you do there? You divide by 3 to leave the "x" by itself on the left side of the equation.

Do you see what you can divide both sides of the equation by in

to get y by itself?

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