SOLUTION: What is the unknown number? Two times a number added to 5 times a number is the same as six times the number minus 3.

SOLUTION: What is the unknown number? Two times a number added to 5 times a number is the same as six times the number minus 3.

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Question 1018118: What is the unknown number? Two times a number added to 5 times a number is the same as six times the number minus 3.
Answer by fractalier(6550) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let us call the number x. Then we write
2x + 5x = 6x - 3
7x = 6x - 3
Subtract 6x from both sides and get
x = -3
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