I need help on this someone please help. x/4=-12 (this says x divided by 2 equals -8). Explain how you would solve for x and what you would get.

Sometimes, it may seem like your geoscience instructor is speaking another language when he/she talks about equations or formulae. Especially if he/she expects you to "manipulate" or rearrange them! But, equations can provide powerful tools for describing the natural world. In the geosciences, we can describe the behavior of many natural phenomena by writing an equation for a line (y = mx + b), or with exponential functions (y = ext). And with a little algebra, we can rearrange those equations to solve for ANY of the variables in them.  

Although this may seem like magic, you don't have to be a "mathemagician" to do this. This page is designed to give you some tools to call upon to help you to learn some simple steps to help you to solve an equation for any of the variables (letters that represent the element or quantity of interest).

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so what is the problem what are they asking you to solve