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document.write( ": <I><SPAN STYLE=\"word-break: break-all;\"> please help me solve this problem.  If 2 is subtracted from a number and this difference is tripled, the result is 6 more than the number. Find the number. </SPAN>\n" );
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document.write( "Let x be the number we are searching.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "So, 2 subtracted from x is written x - 2.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "The difference (x - 2) is tripled means to multiply the quantity (x - 2) by 3 and then equate that to (x + 6)\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "3(x - 2) = (x + 6)\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Can you solve for x now?\r<BR>\n" );
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