How do you solve $y+8=3$ ?

Question

How do you solve $y+8=3$ ?

1 Answer

Impact of this question

6646 views around the world

You can reuse this answer
Creative Commons License

Answer 1 · 2016-07-23T06:41:11

$y=-5$

Explanation:

Start with $y+8=3$ . You want to get $y$ by itself, thus you want to get rid of that $8$ .
Remembering that the opposite of subtraction is addition, you subtract $8$ from both sides, to maintain the equality:
$y+8-8=3-8$
This simplifies to $y=-5$ .

Science

Math

Humanities

... and beyond

How do you solve $y+8=3$ ?

1 Answer

Explanation:

Related questions

Impact of this question

Science

Math

Humanities

... and beyond

How do you solve y+8=3y+8=3?

1 Answer

Explanation:

Related questions

Impact of this question

How do you solve $y+8=3$ ?