SOLUTION: how do you get y by itself

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Question 320285: how do you get y by itself
Answer by Edwin McCravy(20056)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
how do you get y by itself

By doing some or all of the following 

1. adding the same things to both sides
2. multiplying both sides by the same thing
3. collecting like terms 
4. factoring out y
5. dividing both sides by the coefficient of y.

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