SOLUTION: Translate into equations and solve. 1.Six more than nine times a number is the same as two less than ten times the number.What is the number? -please show your work to help me un

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Question 361551: Translate into equations and solve.
1.Six more than nine times a number is the same as two less than ten times the number.What is the number?
-please show your work to help me understand.
-thanks

Answer by rfer(16322)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
9x+6=10x-2
is the same as means equals
subtract 9x from both sides
6=x-2
add 2 to both sides
8=x
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9*8+6=10*8-2
78=78

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