You can put this solution on YOUR website! To make things a little easier, let's first get rid of the denominators by multiplying both sides of the equations (all terms) by 8 to get:
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Where an 8 appears in the numerator, it cancels with the 8 in the denominator:
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and we are left with:
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Now we want to get y by itself on one side of the equation and everything else on the other side. To do that we can subtract w and z from both sides of the equation:
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On the right side the w and the minus w cancel each other and also the z and the minus z cancel each other, and we are left with just y. So the equation is reduced to:
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Just transpose this (switch sides) to get it into the conventional form:
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And that's the answer to this problem. We have solved for y in terms of the other variables in the equation.
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Hope this helps you to understand what you were asked to do and how you would go about doing it.
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