SOLUTION: Anyone available to help me with this word problem please? If 6 is subtracted from five times a number, the result is 2 more than six times the number. Find the number.

Question 836268: Anyone available to help me with this word problem please?
If 6 is subtracted from five times a number, the result is 2 more than six times the number. Find the number.
Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Anyone available to help me with this word problem please?
If 6 is subtracted from five times a number, the result is 2 more than six times the number. Find the number.
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"If 6 is subtracted from five times a number, the result is 2 more than six times the number" translates to the following equation:

Now solve for x

So the number is -8
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