SOLUTION: Please help me solve this question 6f + 1 = 10

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Question 619162: Please help me solve this question 6f + 1 = 10

Found 2 solutions by IFY, dragonwalker:
Answer by IFY(62) About Me  (Show Source):
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6f = 10 -1
6f = 9

divide both sides by 6
f = 6 /9 or
f = 2/3

Answer by dragonwalker(73) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
You must rearrange.
6f + 1 = 10
You want to solve for f so you need to have the f on one side and the regular numbers on the other.
This means that you would need to move the 1 over to the right side of the equal sign as so:
6f = 10 - 1
note when I moved the 1 to the other side I changed the sign before it to -
((Some teachers may want you to write an intermediate step:
6f + 1 - 1 = 10 - 1 i.e. taking away the 1 from each side in order to move it
which leads to the +1 and -1 on the left cancelling each other out, but I was never shown to do it that way.))
So you have 6f = 10 - 1
so 6f = 9
now you want to find f, so you have to change 6f to f and you do this by dividing 6f by 6, but to do this you want to keep each side of the equation equal so if you divide the 6f by 6 you also need to divide everything else by 6, in this case 9 so:
6f%2F6+=+9%2F6
f = 1 1/2
( I assume you know how to simplify a fraction, in this case 9/6 became 1 1/2 or if you need the answer in decimals: 1.5
so f= 1.5 or 1 1/2 if in fractions.