SOLUTION: Please help us solve this equation: -5=-17+y+8

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Question 1094180: Please help us solve this equation: -5=-17+y+8
Found 2 solutions by josgarithmetic, ikleyn:
Answer by josgarithmetic(39625) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Additive inverses...

-5%2B17%2B%28-8%29=-17%2By%2B8%2B17%2B%28-8%29, simplify and compute.

Answer by ikleyn(52847) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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You need to collect the term/the terms with y on one side of the equation, while all the constant terms on the other side.

Then you need to combine like terms.


It is the strategy.


See the lesson
    - HOW TO solve a linear equation
in this site.