32
Let the number be x:
23-6x = -9
Deduct -23 from both sides:
23-23-6x = -9-23
-6x = -32
Divide both sides by -6:
x = 5 and 1/3
(6x) - (-2x) = 6x + 2x = 8x
If seven times a number results in 35, then six times a number would be five less.
It is 3*abs(n - 6) + 4*n
99,001
six less than fourteen times a number
(6x) - (-2x) = 6x + 2x = 8x
If seven times a number results in 35, then six times a number would be five less.
It's an example of converting something easy into something nearly impossible, and then expressing it obscurely. Behind the veil lies an almost trivial algebra exercise. Although the question doesn't ask for the solution to the exercise, here it is anyway, at no extra cost: -- The difference between (eight times a number) and (twice the number) is (six times the number). -- (Six times the number) is eighteen. -- (the number) is one-sixth of eighteen, or three.
5(n-6)
the difference of ten and six times a number
It is 3*abs(n - 6) + 4*n
99,001
It is 90001.
6 + 5n < |n - 1| I have used the absolute value for "difference". This is, unfortunately, an ambiguous term. The absolute value is the difference between the numbers - irrespective of the sign.
The difference is four. Insects have six legs - birds only have two.
The difference between thirty six and four is thirty two.
100000 - 999 = 99001