# Isolating Variables - urgent (due tomorrow)

• September 24th 2008, 12:34 PM
largebabies
Isolating Variables - urgent (due tomorrow)
I am not the best math student and I need help in knowing what to do in this equation.

y 2x
_ + _ = 11
3 5

Sorry if that wasn't in the best format.

I need to figure out how to isolate the y variable.

Help?
• September 24th 2008, 12:36 PM
jbpellerin
I'm imagining you mean (y/3) + (2x/5) = 11
in this case
multiply everything by 3
then move all the terms except Y to the other side (by subtracting them from both sides)
then Y is on it's own
• September 24th 2008, 12:37 PM
largebabies
thank you

kind of new as you can tell :P
• September 24th 2008, 12:37 PM
icemanfan
Is the question to isolate y in the equation $\frac{y}{3} + \frac{2x}{5} = 11$?

If so, first subtract 2x/5 from both sides:

$\frac{y}{3} = 11 - \frac{2x}{5}$

Then multiply both sides of the equation by 3:

$y = 33 - \frac{6x}{5}$
• September 24th 2008, 12:39 PM
largebabies
I did iceman's method and got the correct answer but once again thank you both!

It was a great deal of help! :D