{"id":13197,"date":"2015-11-25T21:59:24","date_gmt":"2015-11-25T21:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=13197"},"modified":"2018-02-13T17:09:40","modified_gmt":"2018-02-13T17:09:40","slug":"algebra-solving-when-x-is-on-the-bottom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/algebra-solving-when-x-is-on-the-bottom\/","title":{"rendered":"Algebra:  solving when x is on the bottom"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>The tutor covers a day-to-day issue in high school algebra.<\/h1>\n<p>Consider the following problem:<\/p>\n<p>14=5\/(3x)<\/p>\n<p>Solution:<\/p>\n<p>First, multiply both sides by 3x:<\/p>\n<p>3x(14)=(3x)*5\/(3x)<\/p>\n<p>The right side is now both divided and multiplied by 3x, so they cancel there:<\/p>\n<p>3x(14)=5<\/p>\n<p>On the left, we simplify:<\/p>\n<p>42x=5<\/p>\n<p>Next, we divide both sides by 42:<\/p>\n<p>42x\/42=5\/42<\/p>\n<p>x=5\/42<\/p>\n<p>HTH:)<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p>Travers, Kenneth et al.  <u>Using Advanced Algebra<\/u>.  Toronto:  Doubleday, 1977.<\/p>\n<p>Jack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tutor covers a day-to-day issue in high school algebra. Consider the following problem: 14=5\/(3x) Solution: First, multiply both sides by 3x: 3x(14)=(3x)*5\/(3x) The right side is now both divided and multiplied by 3x, so they cancel there: 3x(14)=5 On &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/algebra-solving-when-x-is-on-the-bottom\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Algebra:  solving when x is on the bottom<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,1208,1207],"class_list":["post-13197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-math","tag-algebra","tag-solving-for-x-in-the-denominator","tag-solving-for-x-on-the-bottom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13197"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29624,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13197\/revisions\/29624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}