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What is the error in rewriting the equation?
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What is the error in rewriting the equation?

What is the error in rewriting the equation?-example-1
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Answer:

see below

Explanation:

2x -y = 5

Subtract 2x from each side

-2x+2x-y = -2x+5

-y = -2x+5

The y should have a negative sign in front

or

Multiply each side by -1

y = 2x-5

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