SOLUTION: if the sum of -4 and the opposite of a number is multiplied by -3, the result is 6 less than the product of the number and 2. What is the number?

Question 739062: if the sum of -4 and the opposite of a number is multiplied by -3, the result is 6 less than the product of the number and 2. What is the number?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39617) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
x = "a number", and then the opposite of x is (-x).

the sum of -4 and the opposite of a number:

...if that sum is multiplied by -3:
tricky. The "is" does not yet mean "equals".

... the result is 6 less than: ?

... the product of the number and 2:

Most of the work was developing the equation from the described data. Now just solve for x.
Final solved result is .
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