SOLUTION: Please help me solve this "twice the difference between a number and 10 is three times the sum of the number and 1"

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Question 789557: Please help me solve this "twice the difference between a number and 10 is three times the sum of the number and 1"
Answer by KMST(5328)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
= the number
= the difference between a number and 10 ( according to a common interpretation)
= the sum of the number and 1

The way I read the problem, what it says in words translates as


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