Question

Subtracting three from two times a number is three more than four times that number. What is the number?

Answer 1

x = -3

Explanation:

You would first wright out your problem like this: -3 2x = 3+ 4x

You would next take away 2x from both sides of the equal signs, and have

-3 = 3+ 2x.

Now you would take away three from both sides to get -6 = 2x.

You would next divide 2 by both sides to get rid of the 2------^.

So now you have -3 = x or x = -3