According to the laws of exponents, if you add you do not add the exponents. Therefore , and the variable term remains . The answer is .

Add  to both sides.

Subtract 13 from both sides.

Subtract 14 from each side.

Divide both sides by 6.

To solve for  we must get all of the numbers on the other side of the equation of .

When solving a simple two-step equation we must remove the numbers that are interacting with  in this order: Addition/Subtraction, Multiplication/Division, Exponents.

To do this in a problem where  is being multiplied by a number, we must divide both sides of the equation by the number.

In this case the number is  so we divide each side of the equation by  to make it look like this 

Our new problem will look like this .

We then must solve the exponential equation.

To solve an equation with  we must take the square root of each side of the equation to get  by itself.

Doing this makes our problem look like 

Then we perform the square root to get the answer 

Remember that  can also equal  so our answer will be both positive and negative.

The final answer looks like .

We need ot work to isolate the variable using inverse operations.

Subtract  from both sides.

Divide each side by .

To solve , start by simplifying the right side.

Now isolate . This means we need to subtract  from both sides.

To solve for X, we must isolate X on one side of the equation.  In this case, we do this by subtracting 3X and adding 11 to both sides.

We now have isolated X on one side of the equation, so we need only to reduce 3X to 1X.  We can do this by dividing both sides by 3:

To solve for , we need to isolate our variable. That means that we want ONLY the  on the left side of the equation. But first, we need to combine our like terms on the right side.

Add  to both sides.

To perform a two-step algebra problem with addition and multiplication we must remove the numbers from  so it is by itself on one side of the equation.

To do this we first look to see if a number is being added or subtracted from .

In this case a number is being added so we must subtract the number, , from each side of the equation 

Perform the math so our equation becomes

Then we divide each side of the equation by the number that is in front of , , to get  by itself 

Perform the math to find the answer 

To perform a two-step algebra problem with addition and division we must remove the numbers from  so it is by itself on one side of the equation.

To do this we first look to see if a number is being added or subtracted from .

In this case a number is being subtracted so we must add the number,  , to each side of the equation 

Perform the math so our equation becomes

Then we multiply each side of the equation by the number that is under  to get  by itself 

Perform the math to find the answer