Question

If you take a number, times by 5 then subtract 9. You get the same as if you took the number, times by 4 then add 1. What is the number?

Answer 1

To solve the equation, subtract 4x from both sides and then add 9 to both sides.

Step-by-step explanation:

Let's represent the unknown number as x. The equation we can form from the given information is:

5x - 9 = 4x + 1

To solve for x, we can subtract 4x from both sides of the equation:

(5x - 4x) - 9 = 1

This simplifies to:

x - 9 = 1

Next, we can add 9 to both sides of the equation:

(x - 9) + 9 = 1 + 9

This simplifies to:

x = 10

Therefore, the value of the number is 1.0