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List all the numbers that are a distance from 6 away from the number 7

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Let x be a number such that


|x-7|=6.

Solving the above equation for x we get:


\begin{gathered} x-7=\pm6, \\ x=7\pm6, \\ x=1\text{ or x=13.} \end{gathered}

Answer: The numbers that are a distance of 6 away from the number 7 are:

1, and 13.

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