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Help I’m sooo lost!!

Help I’m sooo lost!!-example-1
User Jerry Li
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In these questions, they're asking you to express x in terms of the other algebra.
So we can simply solve this by imaging them as real numerical values.

rx - sx + y = b
First shift +y to the other side, change it to negative.
rx - sx =b - y
Factories rx - sx by picking out the common factor x.
x ( r - s) = b - y
Shift (r-s) to the other side, and we're done.
x = b - y / r - s
Therefore, the final answer is

x = (b - y)/(r - s)

User Karl Entwistle
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Given equation -

rx - sx + y = b

Taking x common -

x ( r - s ) + y = b

x ( r - s ) = b - y

x = b - y / r - s

User Prasoon
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