SOLUTION: I am trying to understand how this: http://www.webcruiser.org/math/sample.jpg gets simplified to this: http://www.webcruiser.org/math/sample_simplified.jpg Sorry about

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Question 563924: I am trying to understand how this:
http://www.webcruiser.org/math/sample.jpg
gets simplified to this:
http://www.webcruiser.org/math/sample_simplified.jpg
Sorry about the links -- copy and paste doesn't present the characters properly.

Answer by scott8148(6628)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
the .3 is distributed on the right-hand side; and then the entire right-hand side is subtracted to leave zero

the term on the left-hand side is combined with a similar term from the right-hand side subtraction

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