document.write( "Question 607103: The product of my number and twice my number is 72. What is my number?
\n" ); document.write( "The answers given are: A)6 B)12 C)24 D)72\r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "I must be setting this up wrong. I thought the Product of \"my number\" meant \"my number\" times itself. So I was setting up the problem as X^ + 2X = 72
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The product of my number and twice my number is 72. What is my number?
\n" ); document.write( "The answers given are: A)6 B)12 C)24 D)72
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\n" ); document.write( "Let x = \"my number\"
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\n" ); document.write( "x(2x) = 72
\n" ); document.write( "2x^2 = 72
\n" ); document.write( "x^2 = 36
\n" ); document.write( "x = 6
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