document.write( "Question 660050: -4(9-3y)+12y-14=9-33y+12y-14
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Algebra.Com's Answer #411051 by math-vortex(648) $\"\"$ $\"About$

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document.write( "First, let me say that I REALLY appreciate when I student shows me what they've tried so far. \r\n" );
document.write( "Nice job!\r\n" );
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document.write( "There is a problem with your notation. You start in the problem statement with an equation. \r\n" );
document.write( "However, in the two steps you show of your work, you have the right side of the equation, but \r\n" );
document.write( "not the left.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Here's how I would do this problem. I assume that you are trying to simplify that complicated \r\n" );
document.write( "equation in the problem statement, getting it to something closer to a \"y equals something\" \r\n" );
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document.write( "Multiply -4 across the terms inside the parentheses.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Combine like terms on the left side: 12y+12y is 24y and  -36-14 is -50.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Combine like terms on the right side: -33y+12y is -21y and 9-14 is -5.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Add 21y to both sides. This isolates the y-terms on the left side of the equation.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Add 50 to both sides. This isolates the constant terms on the right side of the equation.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Divide both sides of the equation by 45: 45y/45 is just y, and 45/45 is 1.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Check your work in the ORIGINAL equation.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Check!\r\n" );
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document.write( "If this is unclear, or you still have questions, please email me.\r\n" );
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