Consider the equation 3p - 7 + p = 13. What is the resulting equation after the first step in the solution?

The first step you would do to solve this equation is to put numbers on one side and variables on the other. Right now, you have 3p - 7 + p = 13, which is close, but - 7 is in the side of the variables. So, in order to get - 7 to the other side, you simply just move - 7 to the other side. (Remember that once you move the number or variable to the other side, you have to change the negative to a positive or a positive to a negative) So your result would be 3p + p = 13 + 7.