How do you solve 2x-7=15? It's pretty easy, and you learn this in algebra. This is exactly a pirate problem. The first thing you would do is add 7 to 15 and -7. You get rid of -7, and you are left with 2x=22. The last thing you would do is divide by 2 to both sides. You also get rid of 2 and are left with x=11. So you're answer to this problem is x=11. Easy right. You just do the opposite of what they want you to do.
This problem is so easy. I learned this back in the first quarter of the school year. Mr.Erickson called these problems pirate problems because you are retracing your steps to find the x. I have done these problems before and I thought they were going to be hard at firs, but it turned out to be easy. I will tell you more about pirate problems and how to solve them. Like pirates, you retrace you steps to find the x. So for this problem, you would have to do the opposite of the operation signs. Instead of subtracting, you would add 7 and instead of multiplying by 2, you would divide by 2. Then you would see what x is at the end of the problem.
This problem is so easy. I learned this back in the first quarter of the school year. Mr.Erickson called these problems pirate problems because you are retracing your steps to find the x. I have done these problems before and I thought they were going to be hard at firs, but it turned out to be easy. I will tell you more about pirate problems and how to solve them. Like pirates, you retrace you steps to find the x. So for this problem, you would have to do the opposite of the operation signs. Instead of subtracting, you would add 7 and instead of multiplying by 2, you would divide by 2. Then you would see what x is at the end of the problem.
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