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Solve each equation. Check your solution. A number increased by 21 is 28. Find the number.

User Tarkmeper
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The correct answer is 7.

Here's how I got my answer:

In order to find the "number", we would need to find the difference between the two numbers. We can do this by doing
28-21, which is your answer, 7.

Example: To find the difference of 20 and 40, we would need to do
40-20, which is 20.

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7 twenty eight minus twenty one equal 7

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