Given a long algebraic equation, what are some strategies that you can use to make simplifying and evaluating the equation more efficient and accurate?

Question

How do inverse operations help solve algebraic equations? Give a real-world scenario where this might be modeled. Help, please!!!!

Answer 1

Honestly, the best strategy I have found is start on a large legal pad. When you get a dead end, tear off that page, put it aside, and start over.

The second strategy is after a couple of hours with no success, put it away, and come back the next morning at it. I remember years ago in college I took two weeks to finally get to a solution this way. No one else solved it.