You wanna get the y by itself. So you will subtract 11.9 then move it to the other side. so that is 10.5y = -11.9x +178.5. Then divide everything by 10.5. Then you get y = -11.9x/10.5+17. 11.9x/10.5 is because you cant put 10.5 into 11.9 evenly so you leave it as a division problem.