Friday, February 4, 2011

Friday Feb 4 - Homework for Weekend


Solve then check the following three equations on lined paper.
Ms. Gesner will collect them P1 on Monday. Show all steps, including the check.

Be sure to

1) Use the distributive property to get rid of brackets.

2) Gather like terms (get all your variables combined into a single term

3) Do the same thing to both sides to isolate the variable

Solve and check - Show all steps for solving, and all steps for checking.

a) 4t -3 = 25

b) 3(2y + 1) = 21

c) 5x - 2x + x + 6 = x + 21