document.write( "Question 485418: twenty-six less than the product of nine and the difference of a number and one is four times the number. what is that number? \n" ); document.write( "
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twenty-six less than the product of nine and the difference of a number and one is four times the number.
\n" ); document.write( " what is that number?
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\n" ); document.write( "Write what it says:
\n" ); document.write( "-26 + 9(x-1) = 4x
\n" ); document.write( "normally written
\n" ); document.write( "9(x-1) - 26 = 4x
\n" ); document.write( "9x - 9 - 26 = 4x
\n" ); document.write( "9x - 35 = 4x
\n" ); document.write( "9x - 4x = 35
\n" ); document.write( "5x = 35
\n" ); document.write( "x = \"35%2F5\"
\n" ); document.write( "x = 7
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\n" ); document.write( "Check it in the original equation
\n" ); document.write( "-26 + 9(7-1) = 4(7)
\n" ); document.write( "-26 + 54 = 28 \n" ); document.write( "
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