SOLVING EQUATIONS BY
DIVIDING
VOCABULARY
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Inverse Operations – operations that undo
each other. For example, multiplication
will undo division.
SOLVING EQUATIONS
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When you solve equations, your goal is to
get the variable alone on one side of the
equation with everything else on the other
side.
The opposite of division is multiplication
Example 1
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x =8
4
When there is a fraction in the problem, that means the
numbers are being divided. So, to get rid of it, we must
multiply the numbers.
x
= 8
4
x = 32
NOTE
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Whenever the original problem shows
division, use multiplication to get rid of the
numbers.
Multiply the two numbers that are in the
original problem.