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Old November 5th, 2009, 09:24 AM
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Originally Posted by Raoh View Post
you should know how to solve equations with one variable.
That's what he is asking help for, though... so I think we should help him instead of say that he should know it

\frac{-3m(-1)}{-1} = -1

We can see that both the numerator and the denominator have a factor of -1 in them, so we can reduce it to get:

\frac{-3m}{1} = -1 \Rightarrow -3m = -1

Now, we want to isolate m (we're looking for a value of m that makes the equation true), so we divide by -3, which is the coefficient of m, and get:

m = \frac{-1}{-3} = \frac{1}{3} \Rightarrow \boxed{m=\frac{1}{3}}
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