Question

if x+3/3 = y+2/2 then x/3 =

I am extremely confused with this. I have looked though my lessons and can not find how to do this. Please help.

Answer 1

I'd say first isolate the "x"
(x+3)/3=(y+2)/2
x+3=3*(y+2)/2
x=3(y+2)/2 -3

so we get "x" equals three times "y" plus two which is then divided by two and subtracted by three.

after that I would simply divide both sides by three as shown below

x/3=( 3*(y+2)/2  -3)/3

x/3 =(y+2)/2 -1  (answer simplified)