How to solve this

[Carterh22]

How do you solve this? -2x+y=5
Write in function form.
I just don't know how to do it.

 

[Deleted member 4993]

How do you solve this? -2x+y=5

Your question is incomplete.

Please post the complete problem - and your work /thoughts upto this point.

You need find the solution - what effort did you make?

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Please share your work with us indicating exactly where you are stuck - so that we may know where to begin to help you.

 

[JeffM]

How do you solve this? -2x+y=5
Write in function form.
I just don't know how to do it.

Please do not respond to a post by editing an earlier post. No one may notice that you responded at all.

You are not asked to solve anything in the sense of finding a value of x. You are asked to rewrite an equation in the form of a function.

Do you know what a function is?

 

[Deleted member 4993]

How do you solve this? -2x+y=5
Write in function form.
I just don't know how to do it.

To see a worked out example go to:

http://www.algebra.com/algebra/homework/equations/Equations.faq.question.128458.html

If you still have questions - please come back, show your work and ask.

 

[Carterh22]

that helped thanks