What is one of the best ways to look for context clues in order to understand the meaning of a passage?

read the sentence immediately following the sentence that has the word in it.
find the meaning of a the word in a dictionary.
find the root word in a dictionary and then try to figure it out from there.
infer meaning by reading between the lines and thinking about the connotation of words.

i tried Infer meaning by reading between the lines and thinking about the connotation of words. and it was wrong so i believe the answer is Find the meaning of a the word in a dictionary.

i don't really love my math teacher

explanation:

and the reason being is because she get me in trouble for the smallest things that i really don't be doing all the time it be my friends that's around me.and i love to do things that other people but when she get on my nerves i don't talk to no one i just sit there and do my work half the time.

really not a paragraph just don't want to say a lot about her : )

substitute y = 2x - 4 to x + 2y = 12:

x + 2(2x - 4) = 12     use distributive property

x + (2)(2x) + () = 12

x + 4x - 8 = 12     add 8 to both sides

5x = 20     divide both sides by 5

x = 4

put the value of x to the first equation:

y = 2(4) - 4

y = 8 - 4

y = 4