vexikron, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago)

Its time for the concept of a ‘variable’!

2 + a = 5

In this example, the variable is indicated by the letter a.

What you want to do is make it so ‘a’ is on one side of the = and a numerical value is on the other side.

One way we can do this is by subtracting 2 from both sides.

Left side: 2 + a - 2 gives us ‘a’

Right side: 5 - 2 gives us 3

Thus we are left with

a = 3

Tada!

/and then somehow, something like half or more of currently living Americans can barely pull off anything more complicated than this./