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31d=186 can y’all help

User Jscheel
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Divide both sides by 31.

31d = 186
31d/31 = 186/31
d = 6

This is called isolating the variable. You move the variable to a side of the equation with nothing else on it, and cancel out the variable's coefficient.

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