Question

What is -0.75p-2=0.25p

Answer 1

Note the equal sign. What you do to one side, you do to the other.

Isolate the p. Add 0.75p to both sides.

-0.75p (+0.75p) - 2 = 0.25p ( +0.75p)

Simplify

-2 = 1p

p = -2

-2 is your answer

Hope this helps

Answer 2

you move first the number without the variable to the other side with the opposite sign

-0.75p=0.25+2

-0.75p=2.25

then as -0.75 is multiplying you pass it to the other side dividing

p=2.25/-0.75

p=-3