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TSI Math: Rewriting Expressions to Solve for a Different Variable 2 Views


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Solve for m.


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00:01

Okay sy mash members I've got another one for you

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here myself for him All right Well wiley coyote is

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frequently outsmarted by equations like this one That's wiley ancient

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which represents the amount of kinetic energy that's the k

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there or energy in motion The road runner has at

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any given time meet me that's how he talks to

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you and ask your parents All right The factors on

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the right side of the equation are joined by multiplication

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We used division to undo the joining start by dividing

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both sides by v squared and be prepared to eat

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some dust V represents a velocity you know they were

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very clever Only ok so we get k over v

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squared equals one half and wow that looks a lot

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simpler Now we're going to move that one half over

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the other side by multiplying both sides by two So

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we get rid of that half and it gets us

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What is that to qet over v squared equals m

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well that's it we just did that Well the poor

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coyote never catch the road runner and thankfully we're more

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capable Eso es is the right answer And well a

01:01

coyote really should stop buying those acne products and watch

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few more shmoop videos Instead you remember those Go check

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it out on youtube it's worth doing All right The

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answer's egg that's it We're done We're shmoop