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A number is cut in half and then 10 is added resulting in 26. What was the original number?
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A number is cut in half

and then 10 is added
resulting in 26. What
was the original number?

User Dreagan
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Well since 10 was added and the final number is 26, you first want to subtract 10 from 26:

16

And before 10 was added the number was cut in half, which means you now need to multiply by 2:

32

The original number is 32.
User Tajah
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Answer:

32

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