Solve for the variable
Whatever you do to one side, you must do to the other.
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Solve for the variable
Whatever you do to one side, you must do to the other.
An operation sits on the equals sign and lands on both sides. Tidying up one side — distributing, or combining like terms — sits under that side alone, because it does not change what the side is worth.