{"id":45,"date":"2018-03-19T15:53:07","date_gmt":"2018-03-19T15:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-accountingformanagers\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=45"},"modified":"2024-04-26T22:04:30","modified_gmt":"2024-04-26T22:04:30","slug":"introduction-to-solving-equations","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-accountingformanagers\/chapter\/introduction-to-solving-equations\/","title":{"raw":"Introduction to Solving Equations","rendered":"Introduction to Solving Equations"},"content":{"raw":"<img class=\"wp-image-848 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2985\/2018\/03\/01222607\/zen-1587882_1920-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Image of a stack of six different colored and shaped rocks balanced in a tower. Behind the tower in the distance is the ocean.\" width=\"659\" height=\"371\" \/>\r\n\r\nCarefully placed on top of each other\u2014one by one\u2014the rocks used in this tower are able to avoid toppling from the pull of gravity because they are a balanced mass.\u00a0Any shift in either direction from wind, erosion, any other force could cause the tower to fall. In this section, we will solve equations by keeping quantities on both sides of an equal sign in perfect balance. We will practice using mathematical rules of equality to unwrap the equation and solve for the unknown quantity.","rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-848 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2985\/2018\/03\/01222607\/zen-1587882_1920-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Image of a stack of six different colored and shaped rocks balanced in a tower. Behind the tower in the distance is the ocean.\" width=\"659\" height=\"371\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Carefully placed on top of each other\u2014one by one\u2014the rocks used in this tower are able to avoid toppling from the pull of gravity because they are a balanced mass.\u00a0Any shift in either direction from wind, erosion, any other force could cause the tower to fall. In this section, we will solve equations by keeping quantities on both sides of an equal sign in perfect balance. We will practice using mathematical rules of equality to unwrap the equation and solve for the unknown quantity.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t <section class=\"citations-section\" role=\"contentinfo\">\n\t\t\t <h3>Candela Citations<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t <div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <div id=\"citation-list-45\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"licensing\"><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Original<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Introduction to Solving Equations. <strong>Provided by<\/strong>: Lumen Learning. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\">CC BY: Attribution<\/a><\/em><\/li><\/ul><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Shared previously<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Balanced Tower of Rocks. <strong>Authored by<\/strong>: bertomic. <strong>Located at<\/strong>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/en\/zen-stacking-stones-balance-cairns-1587882\/\">https:\/\/pixabay.com\/en\/zen-stacking-stones-balance-cairns-1587882\/<\/a>. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/about\/cc0\">CC0: No Rights Reserved<\/a><\/em><\/li><li>Prealgebra. <strong>Provided by<\/strong>: OpenStax. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\">CC BY: Attribution<\/a><\/em>. <strong>License Terms<\/strong>: Download for free at http:\/\/cnx.org\/contents\/caa57dab-41c7-455e-bd6f-f443cda5519c@9.757<\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t <\/section>","protected":false},"author":17533,"menu_order":2,"template":"","meta":{"_candela_citation":"[{\"type\":\"cc\",\"description\":\"Balanced Tower of Rocks\",\"author\":\"bertomic\",\"organization\":\"\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/en\/zen-stacking-stones-balance-cairns-1587882\/\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc0\",\"license_terms\":\"\"},{\"type\":\"cc\",\"description\":\"Prealgebra\",\"author\":\"\",\"organization\":\"OpenStax\",\"url\":\"\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc-by\",\"license_terms\":\"Download for free at http:\/\/cnx.org\/contents\/caa57dab-41c7-455e-bd6f-f443cda5519c@9.757\"},{\"type\":\"original\",\"description\":\"Introduction to Solving Equations\",\"author\":\"\",\"organization\":\"Lumen Learning\",\"url\":\"\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc-by\",\"license_terms\":\"\"}]","CANDELA_OUTCOMES_GUID":"8326a2db-5c35-4add-bcd8-f2f6fc41c836","pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-45","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":26,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-accountingformanagers\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-accountingformanagers\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-accountingformanagers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-accountingformanagers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17533"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-accountingformanagers\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":879,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-accountingformanagers\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/45\/revisions\/879"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-accountingformanagers\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/26"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-accountingformanagers\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/45\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-accountingformanagers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-accountingformanagers\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-accountingformanagers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-accountingformanagers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}