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The difference of x and a number is 6. What is the other number?

User Bill Hurt
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there could be many possible solutions....but maybe this will help.


Let x and N be the numbers. since x - N = 6, the other number is N = x-6

Hope this helped :)



User TFischer
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Answer:

y = x - 6

Step-by-step explanation:

Let a number be y

x - y = 6

⇒y = x - 6

Now, it is not mentioned what type of numbers y and x are. So, the numbers could be real numbers, imaginary numbers.

Real numbers include

Natural numbers eg., 1, 2, 3 .......

Whole numbers eg., 0, 1, 2, 3 ......

Integers eg., .....-2, -1, 0, 1, 2 .....

Irrational numbers eg., π

Rational numbers eg., 4.0, 3.0, 3.1 ......

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