SOLUTION: The product of 6 and nine times a number is the same as the difference of ten times the number and 2. What is the number?
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Question 269576: The product of 6 and nine times a number is the same as the difference of ten times the number and 2. What is the number?
Answer by ankor@dixie-net.com(22740) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
let x = "a number"
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Just write an equation for what it says:
The product of 6 and nine times a number is the same as the difference of ten times the number and 2.
:
6*(9x) = 10x - 2
54x = 10x - 2
54x - 10x = -2
44x = -2
x =
x = is the number
;
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Check solution in original equation
6*9* = 10* - 2
= -
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