Essential Understanding

• you are solving by forming equivalent equations.

• a 2-step equation involves two operations to undo

• you will undo the operations in reverse order

Solving With Two Terms In the Numerator

When on side of an equation is a fraction with more than one term in the numerator, you can still undo division by multiplying each side by the denominator.

​Example

Using an equation as a model

• What do you know?

• What do you need?

• What's my plan?

• Write and solve an equation.