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Part 2 — Solving for the Unknown Value, Advanced
Author(s) -
Price Joanne Kirkpatrick
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
opflow
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1551-8701
pISSN - 0149-8029
DOI - 10.1002/j.1551-8701.1993.tb00325.x
Subject(s) - simple (philosophy) , subtraction , multiplication (music) , sign (mathematics) , division (mathematics) , value (mathematics) , series (stratigraphy) , arithmetic , mathematics , diagonal , calculus (dental) , computer science , algebra over a field , mathematical analysis , pure mathematics , geometry , combinatorics , statistics , medicine , paleontology , philosophy , dentistry , epistemology , biology
This is the second of two articles that explain in simple, step‐by‐step how to solve mathematical equations that contain an unknown value. For calculations involving only multiplication and division, terms are moved diagonally across the equal sign to solve for the unknown value. (Instructions for solving these simple equations are given in the February 1993 Opflow, p. 9.) However, when addition and subtraction are included in the equation, the rules of movement are more complex. The article reviews the steps in solving for x in these advanced calculations. This is one of a series of thirteen articles called Math in Chunks.