That is what I thought he meant... untill I read his post.

You really should get into the habit of combining every like term, and then getting all variables on one side of the equation and all other numbers on the other. Believe me, it may seem pointless in some of the easy equations now, but once you get into more and more complex stuff, it helps a TON to be used to doing it by default. I learned this the hard way, and once I started quadratics I DIED.

Well... maybe that was because I never did any homework. But you know. Either one. I'm just reinforcing facts already said, so ignore me if you must...

IN OTHER NEWS... Live through Algebra One and you get to Geometry (usually). Which is friggen easy. Relatively speaking. And Algebra 2 aint that bad either. So cheer up! It's all good.