SOLUTION: Translate "the difference between nine and sixteen times a number is equal to one less than twenty-four times a number" into an equation and solve.

SOLUTION: Translate "the difference between nine and sixteen times a number is equal to one less than twenty-four times a number" into an equation and solve.

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Question 172265: Translate "the difference between nine and sixteen times a number is equal to one less than twenty-four times a number" into an equation and solve.
Answer by Mathtut(3670) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
lets call the number n
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9-16n=24n-1
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40n=10
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