How do you solve y - 10 = 14y−10=14?

3 Answers
Harish Chandra Rajpoot
Jul 5, 2018

y=24y=24

Explanation:

y-10=14y−10=14

y=14+10y=14+10

y=24y=24

Jim G.
Jul 5, 2018

y=24y=24

Explanation:

"isolate "y" by adding 10 to both sides of the equation"isolate y by adding 10 to both sides of the equation

y=14+10=24y=14+10=24

Jacobi J.
Jul 5, 2018

y=24y=24

Explanation:

To isolate yy, we want to add 1010 to both sides. This is intuitive because it will cancel the -10−10, because we only want a yy on the left.

We get

y=10+14y=10+14

=>y=24⇒y=24

Hope this helps!

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