Curriculum placement
Grade 8. This describes the skill, not a learner estimate.
Linear equations with variables on both sides
Solve linear equations with variables on both sides
Problem types
- Solve a linear equation
- Solve equations that need distributing or combining first
- Write an equation or inequality with variables on both sides
- Enter the value of a related expression
- Unwrap an equation
- Undo a negative multiplier
- Undo a fraction multiplier
- Bring the unknowns together
- Test a proposed answer
- One, none, or every number?
- Build one, none, or every solution
- Mark each equation true or not true
- Solve an equation with decimal coefficients and variables on both sides
- Distribute, collect the variable terms on one side, and solve
- Show the work: a linear equation with a grouped term and variables on both sides
Builds on
Leads to
Related skills
- Solving inequalities · Shared foundations
- Solving absolute-value equations · Shared foundations
- Supplementary, vertical, and adjacent angles · Shared foundations
- Structure of an expression · Shared foundations
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