Bill found that if the product of 4 and a number is increased by 6, the result is 4 more than the product of 2 and the number. What is the number?
1 Answer
Jan 30, 2018
The number is
Explanation:
A product is the answer from multiplying.
The word 'AND' tells you which numbers are being multiplied.
We have two parts to the statement.
Let the number being referred to be
The two statements are equal, so we can write an equation:
Check: