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Manual Operations on the Sides

**What**: Use ff to duplicate the manual ways of school teachings **Why**: To make sure you understand how to manipulate sides of an equation on your own. **How**: Simply try to duplicate what the teacher does to solve an equation by working the sides. **Time To Complete**: 6 hours

Alt Textpts2 is your friend the Line! In 2D, any equation of the form a*x+b*y + c = 0 has solutions namely the x and y coordinates that satisfy the identity, namely lhs = rhs, line up along a fixed line specified by the three constants a, b and c.

hs = x-3;
rhs = 17*y+9;

lhs = lhs -9;
rhs = rhs -9;

lhs = lhs/17;
rhs = rhs/17;

show lhs also rhs;

save as trash;

**Output**

   <style>
        .box {
            width: 200px;
            height: 70px;
            background-color:  hsla(89, 43%, 51%, 0.3);
            border: 2px dotted orange;
            padding: 10px;
            margin: 10px;
        }
    </style>

<div class="box">
  "lhs" → (-12 + x)/17
  <br>
"rhs" → y
</div>