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Cyrilshark
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The word problem: If the product of a number and -5 is reduced by 2, the result is 26 less than twice the opposite of the number. What is the number?
I wrote it out like this:
n x (-5) - 2 = 2(-n) - 26
I'm really at a loss here. Normally when there's a variable, my teacher says to get the variable alone, but when there's two that share a number, I don't know what to do besides pick random numbers and see what happens :P
Thanks in advance,
Cyril
I wrote it out like this:
n x (-5) - 2 = 2(-n) - 26
I'm really at a loss here. Normally when there's a variable, my teacher says to get the variable alone, but when there's two that share a number, I don't know what to do besides pick random numbers and see what happens :P
Thanks in advance,
Cyril