SOLUTION: Translate “the difference between seven times a number and nine is equal to the difference
between ten times the number and three” into an equation and solve.
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Question 476759: Translate “the difference between seven times a number and nine is equal to the difference
between ten times the number and three” into an equation and solve.
Answer by ankor@dixie-net.com(22740) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
“the difference between seven times a number and nine is equal to the difference
between ten times the number and three”
7x - 9 = 10x - 3
-9 + 3 = 10x - 7x
-6 = 3x
x =
x = -2
:
:
See if that works:
7(-2) - 9 = 10(-2) - 3
-14 - 9 = -20 - 3, it does
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