 Any term may be transposed from one member of an equation to the other, provided its sign be changed.  Elementary Algebra - Page 31by Herbert Ellsworth Slaught, Nels Johann Lennes - 1915 - 373 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John William Hopkins, Patrick Healy Underwood - Algebra - 1912 - 362 pages
...12 + 3. Uniting like terms, (3) 3 x — 15, (4) x = 5. Axiom 5. From this solution it appears that a term may be transposed from one member of an equation to the other member by changing its sign. This process is called transposition. Accordingly, the above . solution... | |
 | James Charles Byrnes, Julia Richman, John Storm Roberts - Arithmetic - 1913 - 320 pages
...the second to the first member by changing its sign. Therefore, 214- RULE FOK TRANSPOSING TERMS. Any term may be transposed from one member of an equation to the other, provided its sign is changed. 215. Solve the following equations. (Prove those marked*.) = s. 2. x-6 = 15 9 . 3. 2x+3 = 9 * ia 4.... | |
 | James Charles Byrnes, Julia Richman, John Storm Roberts - Arithmetic - 1913 - 468 pages
...the second to the first member by changing its sign. Therefore, 414. RULE FOR TRANSPOSING TERMS. Any term may be transposed from one member of an equation to the other, provided its sign is changed415. Solve the following equations. (Prove those marked *.) *i. 2 + 4 = 7 8. 42-2=2+7 2. 2-6... | |
 | James Charles Byrnes - 1913 - 468 pages
...the second to the first member by changing its sign. Therefore, 414. RULE FOR TRANSPOSING TERMS. Any term may be transposed from one member of an equation to the other, provided its sign is changed415. Solve the following equations. (Prove those marked *.) *i. 2 + 4=7 8. 42-2=2+7 2. x-6 =... | |
 | George Morris Philips, Robert Franklin Anderson - Arithmetic - 1913 - 394 pages
...members, and that the signs before each of these numbers are different in the two equations; hence : 206. A term may be transposed from one member of an equation to the other, if the sign before it is changed. Exercise 61 1. If x + 6 = 8, for what number does x stand; that is,... | |
 | William James Milne - Algebra - 1914 - 508 pages
...Explain the transposition of terms in each of the following : 4 x + 3 x = 14. 71. PRINCIPLE. — Any term may be transposed from one member of an equation to the other, provided its sign is changed. EXERCISES 72. 1. Solve the equation 2x + 20 = 80 — 4 x. PROCESS 2ж+20 = 80 — ix о; = 10 EXPLANATION.... | |
 | William James Milne - Arithmetic - 1914 - 524 pages
...5 is transposed to the second member with the sign preceding it changed from — to + . ' A number may be transposed from one member of an equation to the other provided the sign + preceding it is changed to — or the rign — to + . 9. Just as 2 + 2 +2 = 3x2, sox + x+x... | |
 | George E. Mercer, Mabel Bonsall - Arithmetic - 1914 - 324 pages
...and placed in the other member with its sign changed. Hence, we say : A number may be transferred, or transposed, from one member of an equation to the other, provided its sign be changed. ' In the following equations, transpose the unknown numbers to the first member and the... | |
 | Herbert Ellsworth Slaught, Nels Johann Lennes - Algebra - 1915 - 402 pages
...F, I, 13 re = 13. (5) By DI 13, n = 1. (6) Check. Substitute n = 1 in equation (1). x = 66. (2) By F, I, 11 x = 66. (3) 31. Transposing Terms. By use...transposed from one member of an equation to the other by changing its sign. Eg in deriving equation (4) from (3) in Example 2, page 30, 8 n is subtracted... | |
 | Eva F. Buker - 1915 - 436 pages
...=9-4=5 The result is the same as transposing + 4 to the second member and changing the + to -. 26. Any term may be transposed from one member of an equation to the other if its sign is changed. Taking the equation x + 5 = 20 - 2 x, we subtract 5 from both members and -... | |
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