SOLUTION: Adding twice the number to the difference of thrice the number and 4 is just like subtracting 10 from three times the product of half of the number and 4. find the number?
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Question 1027999: Adding twice the number to the difference of thrice the number and 4 is just like subtracting 10 from three times the product of half of the number and 4. find the number?
Answer by fractalier(6550) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Call the number x and carefully translate the English into symbols...we get
2x + (3x - 4) = 3(x/2 * 4) - 10
Now solve it...
5x - 4 = 3(2x) - 10
5x - 4 = 6x - 10
Now subtract 5x and add ten..
x = 6
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