document.write( "Question 68204: Translate the following statement into an algebraic equation. Let x represent the number.
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Translate the following statement into an algebraic \r\n" );
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document.write( "6 times a number is 14 more than that number.\r\n" );
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document.write( "After each step, I'll color some of the words red, then\r\n" );
document.write( "I'll replace them. Then I'll copy it over with some new\r\n" );
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document.write( "6 times a number is 14 more than that number.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Replace the words \"a number\" by x. Now we have:\r\n" );
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document.write( "6 times x is 14 more than that number.\r\n" );
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document.write( "6 times x is 14 more than that number.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Replace the word \"that number\" also by x. Now we have:\r\n" );
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document.write( "6 times x is 14 more than x.\r\n" );
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document.write( "6 times x is 14 more than x.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Replace the words \"6 times x\" by \"6x\". Now we have\r\n" );
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document.write( "6x is 14 more than x.\r\n" );
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document.write( "6x is 14 more than x.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Now we need to replace the words \"14 more than x\" \r\n" );
document.write( "by something.\r\n" );
document.write( "This is a little harder but not much.  To get 14 more \r\n" );
document.write( "than x, we start with x, so we write x first, then we \r\n" );
document.write( "want to make it 14 more by adding (\"plussing\") 14 \r\n" );
document.write( "onto it. So we want to replace \"14 more than x\" by \r\n" );
document.write( "\"x + 14\".  [Caution: we want to translate exactly,\r\n" );
document.write( "so we should write \"x + 14 and not \"14 + x\", because\r\n" );
document.write( "we are starting with x and making it more.  We are \r\n" );
document.write( "not starting with 14.)  So we now have:\r\n" );
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document.write( "6x is x + 14\r\n" );
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document.write( "6x is x + 14\r\n" );
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document.write( "Finally we replace the word \"is\" by \" = \"\r\n" );
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document.write( "6x = x + 14\r\n" );
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document.write( "6x = x + 14\r\n" );
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document.write( "That's the algebraic equation!\r\n" );
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