First you have to get the variable by its self (m). So you will get rid of 6 and since it’s positive you will do negative 6 to cancel it out. But what you do to one side you do to the other, so you will do 87 - 6 and get 81. Now it’s 9m = 81. So then since 9 is next to m that implies multiplcation so you do the opposite of multiplication and dived 9 by both sides. And when you do that you get 9.
