Just...expand the brackets and see if anything jumps out at you. Come on now.
"Getting unstuck by applying a basic technique you already know without necessarily having a plan for what to do next" is a useful skill in countless areas of creative and technical work.
You don't need to expand the brackets, just multiply both sides by 12 to yield 6y + 3 = 3 + xy, cancel the 3s from each side, now you have 6y = xy so x = 6.
Just...expand the brackets and see if anything jumps out at you. Come on now.
"Getting unstuck by applying a basic technique you already know without necessarily having a plan for what to do next" is a useful skill in countless areas of creative and technical work.
You don't need to expand the brackets, just multiply both sides by 12 to yield 6y + 3 = 3 + xy, cancel the 3s from each side, now you have 6y = xy so x = 6.
They don't teach that skill, public education math just speeds through everything as fast as possible because students are products.
1/2 is double 1/4 so it will be 3*2 = 6