Posted by dani on Friday, November 2, 2007 at 4:00pm.
Multiply out the parenthese, and combine similar terms (constants and terms that are multiples of the unknown) on separate sides of the equation. For example
2(2.5B-9) = -7
5B -18 = 7
5B = 25
The last step should be obvious.
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