SOLUTION: please solve. -1/2(a+2)+a=-3

Question 934103: please solve. -1/2(a+2)+a=-3
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Answer by mananth(16949) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
-1/2(a+2)+a=-3

multiply the equation by 2
we get

-a-2+2a=6
a-2=6
+2 +2
a=6+2
a=8