SOLUTION: How do you solve for y and x ? Like my promblem says solve for y right? So they gave me the promblem 4y + 12 = -3(2x-4), could you help me with this promblem?

Question 528039: How do you solve for y and x ? Like my promblem says solve for y right? So they gave me the promblem 4y + 12 = -3(2x-4), could you help me with this promblem?
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
What they mean is:
Get y all by itself on one side of the equation
It doesn't really matter which side
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You do this by doing the same thing to
both sides of the equation, which leaves
the equation unchanged
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Subtract from both sides

Now divide both sides by

This is OK, but you can finish by
multiplying out

Now you have

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