If you have an expression with many variables, you can often solve for a different one. One classic example is rate x time = distance.
We use the variable rxt=d
Now this is solved for d, but say you want to solve for t. You divide both sides by r and
t=d/r and it is solved for t.
Sure. You can always 'solve for' a variable, and if it happens to be the only variable in the equation, than that's how you solve the equation.
solve x=yz for the variable y
The variables may have different values.
Solve the problem using the + sign for the variable. Then solve the problem using the - sign for the variable. Report your answer as the answer that you got using + or the answer that you got using -.
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That depends on the equation. In general, you'll try to isolate the variable, by using operations (on both sides of the equation) that get rid of anything other than the variable, on the side the variable is on.
Yes, that is what you are normally required to solve for.
Cross multiply then solve for the variable.
No, you can only simplify an expression. To solve for a variable, it must be in an equation.
You solve algebraic expressions by getting the variable by itself.
Use the definition of a function. If, for any value of one variable, there is only a single possible value of the second variable, then the second variable is a function of the first variable. The second variable is often called the "dependent variable". If you can solve an equation explicitly for the dependent variable, then it is a function. If you can NOT solve it for a variable, it may or may not be a function - it turns out that some equations are hard or impossible to solve explicitly for one of the variables.
Yes