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Community answer in this example move the 5 to the other side and change your action symbol like this x7 5 now you can solve for x to be sure youve done it correctly put in your value for x in the original equation and solve. You can use the mathway widget below to practice solving a linear equation by adding or subtracting try the entered exercise or type in your own exercise then click the button to compare your answer to mathways or skip the widget and continue with the lesson. Solving any linear equation is just a matter of performing operations on both sides of the equals sign until the equation is in the form you want usually solved for a single variable like x or y the steps are shown in detail below y 2 4 y 2 4 y 2 2 4 2 y 2 2 4 2 y 0 2 y 0 2 y 2 y 2