SOLUTION: I am a number. There's a number to the right of me on the number line and when you double it, the answer is forty-eight.
There's a number exactly the same distance away from me
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Question 992169: I am a number. There's a number to the right of me on the number line and when you double it, the answer is forty-eight.
There's a number exactly the same distance away from me on the left, and when you triple it, the answer is thirty-six.
What number am I?
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let = the unknown number
Let = the number to the right on number line
Let = the number to the left on number line
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Given:
(1)
(2)
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(1)
(2)
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Multiply both sides of (1) by
Multiply both sides of (2) by
Then add the equations
(1)
(2)
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You are 18
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check:
(1)
(1)
(1)
(1)
(1)
and
(2)
(2)
(2)
(2)
(2)
OK
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