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Pease help with this question 3y=83

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to solve for y, you have to divide both sides by 3 to cancel the 3. so when you divide 3y by 3, the "3" goes away and the "83" is reduced to 26 (2/3) so your equation is:
y = 26 (2/3).

hope this helps (;
User Yan Yang
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3y = 83
y = 83/3
y = 27.67

if that were the only data

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