SOLUTION: what is the sum of eight times a number and six is negative ten? Can you please give me this answer in an equation.

SOLUTION: what is the sum of eight times a number and six is negative ten? Can you please give me this answer in an equation.

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Question 491151: what is the sum of eight times a number and six is negative ten? Can you please give me this answer in an equation.
Answer by ankor@dixie-net.com(22740) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
what is the sum of eight times a number and six is negative ten?
Can you please give me this answer in an equation.
:
Write an equation for exactly what it says
8n + 6 = -10
Find n
8n = -10 - 6
8n = -16
n =
n = -2
:
:
See if that is true
8(-2) + 6 =
-16 + 6 = -10
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