On 5/11/2012 8:51 PM, Ary Manzana wrote:
On 5/12/12 3:24 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
x + 3 = 5
on the board and asked people to "solve for x", they would fail
completely. But, if she wrote:
( ) + 3 = 5
and asked them to "fill in the circle with the number that makes it
work", they all went "of course, it's 2!"
When I read "solve *for* x" I don't understand it. What do you mean "for x"?
Like doing a favor to x?
In Spanish we say "hallar el valor de x" which means "find the value of x"...
I'm not a native English speaker so I don't know if "solve for x" sounds natural
if you haven't done ecuations before... but for me it doesn't. :-P
It's normal English mathematical jargon.
