Transcript: Balancing Equations with Multiple Terms
INEZ: Those poor bunnies!
INEZ: We have to save them, Didge! We have to!
DIGIT: Awright, awright, we will! Yoikes!Look at all these places we gotta fill in.
INEZ: And look at all these weights! If we have to find a balance using all of them - it'll take forever!
DIGIT: Well, we gotta start somewhere. Here's a six.
INEZ: Here's another six!
DIGIT: Bada-bing...bada balance! Now we're cookin'!
INEZ: Here's a two. And another two!
DIGIT: Hey, whadda you know?! When you add the same weight to each side, it still balances! I think it's sinkin in!
INEZ: We did it! We balanced the scale using all the weights! Let's put in the numbers and save those bunnies!
INEZ: Uh oh!
DIGIT: What uh oh? I don't like uh ohs!
INEZ: There are only four places on each side to put numbers - and we have five weights on each side! One too many on each side of the scale!
DIGIT: Don't tell me we have to start over!
INEZ: Oh, and we're running out of time! Those cute little bunnies can't dodge the cyberstatic forever!
DIGIT: Nezzie! Get a grip!
INEZ: You're right, Didge. Maybe we don't have to start over!
DIGIT: Do you really think better that way?
INEZ: Which way? Okay, what do we know? We know when we add the same amount to each side of a balanced scale, it still balances.
DIGIT: So maybe if we take away the same amount from each side - it'll stay in balance too!
INEZ: Of course! The new totals on each side will still match each other. We just have to figure out which weights Hacker didn't use, and remove them.
DIGIT: No problemo! The old beakeroo can smell The Hacker a mile away! Yech! The Hacker touched this one for sure. Phoof! This one too! And this one.
DIGIT: But not this one! The 4 weight is clean!
INEZ: Let's see if you're right. We'll take a 4 from each side...
DIGIT: Easy...easy...beauteeful! We're still balanced.
INEZ: That leaves us with a six - a two - a five - and a three on each side! Let's hope that's right.
DIGIT: The special marker, milady!
INEZ: The total on the left side equals the total on the right side.
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