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The details depend on the type of equation you want to solve. A typical algebra textbook can teach you the details. But briefly, in the simplest cases at least, you basically want to "isolate" a variable, eliminating anything that is NOT the variable. And anything you do on one side of the variable, you need to do on the other side as well. Here is an example:2x + 1 = 15

Since the idea is to have "x" alone on one side, first you might want to get rid of the 1. Subtract one on each side, to get:

2x = 14

Next, to get rid of the 2, you divide both sides by 2, with the result:

x = 7

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