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Assuming you want to get rid of the fractions, you can multiply both sides of the equations by the greatest common factor of the fractions. Then you can solve the equation normally.
You will have to break it down, for example: 5x + 40= 60 -40 -40 ----------- 0 20 so 20 divided by 5 is 4 so x equals 4, thats how you do it,.
okay one step equations are when you do 1 problem and two step is when you do the same procedure twice
There isn't a universal way to do this, just like there isn't a universal way to solve nonlinear equations in one variable. A good place to start, however, would be to attempt to solve an equation for one of the variables, in terms of the other two. If you substitute that into the other equations, you will then have a system of two equations in two variables. Do this again, and you'll have a single variable equation that you'll hopefully know how to solve.
If you know matrix algebra, the process is simply to find the inverse for the matrix of coefficients and apply that to the vector of answers. If you don't: You solve these in the same way as you would solve a pair of simultaneous linear equations in two unknowns - either by substitution or elimination. For example, change the subject of one of the equations to express one of the variables in terms of the other two. Substitute this value into the other two equations. When simplified, you will have two linear equations in two variables.