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Twelve subtracted from two times a number is -70. What is the number? A) Translate the statement above into an equation that you can solve to answer this question. Do not solve …

Twelve subtracted from two times a number is -70. What is the number? A) Translate the statement above into an equation that you can solve to answer this question. Do not solve …
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Twelve subtracted from two times a number is -70. What is the number?

A) Translate the statement above into an equation that you can solve to answer this question. Do not solve it yet. Use
x
as your variable.

The equation is

User Steven Thewissen
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x = 6

Explanation:

2 - 12 × x = -70

= -12x +2 = -70

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