Question

Solve -4x - 10 = -2y for y. Put your answer in the form y=mx+b with no spaces. y=2x+5 y=-2x-5 y=-2x+5 y=2x-5

Answer 1

To solve for y you have to get y by itself. To do that, you use inverse operations. The inverse of addition is subtraction and inverse of multiplication is division.

-4x - 10 = -2y Divide by -2 to get y alone. What you do to one side of the
÷-2 ÷-2 equation, you must do to the other.
-2x - 5 = y

So the answer is b, y=-2x-5