CHAPTER 5 Solving First Degree Equations in One Variable
The rocks in this formation must remain perfectly balanced around the centre for the formation to hold its shape.
If we carefully placed more rocks of equal weight on both sides of this formation, it would still balance. Similarly, the expressions in an equation remain balanced when we add the same quantity to both sides of the equation. In this chapter, we will solve equations, remembering that what we do to one side of the equation, we must also do to the other side.
This chapter has been adapted from the “Introduction” in Chapter 2 of Elementary Algebra (OpenStax) by Lynn Marecek and MaryAnne Anthony-Smith, which is under a CC BY 4.0 Licence. Adapted by Izabela Mazur. See the Copyright page for more information.
