SOLUTION: If four is subtracted from a number and this difference is doubled, the result is fourteen. What is the number? Show your work.

SOLUTION: If four is subtracted from a number and this difference is doubled, the result is fourteen. What is the number? Show your work.

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Question 482988: If four is subtracted from a number and this difference is doubled, the result is fourteen. What is the number? Show your work.
Answer by jainpreeja(10) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
we take the number is x
2(x-4)=14
2x-8=14
2x=14+8
2x=22
x=22/2
x=11

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