Again, Jjmarie, please do not ask questions about equations in this format. Your job is to SOLVE <span>3(13-2a)=-3+a, not to find out "what it equals."
"Solve" means "find the value of a that satisfies the given equation."
</span><span>3(13-2a)=-3+a, when multiplied out, is 39 - 6a = -3 + a
Combining like terms: -7a = -42, or a = 6. See? a equals 6; the equation does not equal 6. You could say, however, that "</span><span>3(13-2a)=-3+a" is TRUE when a = 6. It's a conditional statement.</span>
2x+y>3 describes the low end, presuming that you have defined to mean the number of field goals and to mean the number of free throws. yet your best game was 15, so the values must also satisfy 2x+y
