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Originally posted by Carlthulhu
Can you retake the test?
I've always struggled with algebra, but this one guy showed me a surefire way to solve any equation:
Pick a side, and move all letters not pertaining to the needed one to that side.
Cancel away anything and everything possible.
Call it the brute-force method. Might not be the fastest, or most elegant way, but it works. Ans solving complicated equations this way has built up my confidence. Which in turn allowed me to see shortcuts where before I just saw alphabet-soup.
My math-inclined friends still think I have strange ways, but say it's fine as long as I get reproducible results...