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✦ Class 8 · Maths

Linear Equations in One Variable

Your friend says: think of a number, double it, add 5, and tell me the answer. You say 17 — and she says your number was 6. How did she know?

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  1. 1That balance gives us the one rule of this whole chapter. Whatever you do to one side, do exactly the same to the other.
  2. 2Now we do one together. I am not solving this one — you are. I will just ask what comes next.
  3. 3You have the method now.
  4. 4This one has brackets. The trick is that brackets are just a group waiting to be shared out.
  5. 5Same shape, different numbers.
  6. 6One habit worth building. Always check. Put forty back into the words. Sanju forty, Rohit fifty-five, total ninety-five.
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