Answer
$y=-5$
Work Step by Step
We need to get the y alone. In order to cancel out division, we use multiplication, so we multiply both sides by 3 to get that $-3=2+y$. We now cancel out the addition by subtracting 2 on both sides, giving us a final answer of $y=-5$. We plug -5 in for y and confirm that our answer is, indeed, correct.
