SOLUTION: The product of negative three and a number is twenty-four. how do you translate this into an equation and then solve?

Question 915731: The product of negative three and a number is twenty-four. how do you translate this into an equation and then solve?
Answer by Hawksfan(61) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The product of negative three and a number is twenty-four. how do you translate this into an equation and then solve?
Product means the result of a multiplication.
So we need to multiply
-3 * (some number) = 24
-3 * X = 24
Divide by -3 on both sides...
X = -8
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