SOLUTION: What number multiplies to get 144 and adds/subtracts to get 6? The answer the books is giving me is 24 but I do not understand how they got that answer. Can you explain this to me?

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Question 880952: What number multiplies to get 144 and adds/subtracts to get 6? The answer the books is giving me is 24 but I do not understand how they got that answer. Can you explain this to me?
Answer by Edwin McCravy(20054) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
That doesn't make sense. No single number alone "multiplies".  It takes TWO TO
TANGO, and it takes two numbers to multiply. Similarly, no single number alone can
"add/subtract".  It takes two numbers to add/subtract, too.  Asking what one
number can do what only two numbers can do doesn't make any sense.  

Edwin