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C
ritical Thinking Questions
Developing your understanding
1. How do you determine which variable to solve for?
2. How do you clear the fractions in an equation?
3. Why eliminate parentheses when solving a linear equation?
4. What are your strategies for isolating the variable term without making a mistake?
5. When isolating the variable, why do you divide both sides of the equation by the coefficient of the
variable?