Question 320285
how do you get y by itself
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By doing some or all of the following 

1. adding the same things to both sides
2. multiplying both sides by the same thing
3. collecting like terms 
4. factoring out y
5. dividing both sides by the coefficient of y.

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Edwin</pre>