The sum of 11 and the product of a number and 6 is 53. What is the number?
1 Answer
Dec 9, 2016
Explanation:
First, let's write this as a mathematical expression:
Let's call the number we are looking for
Then we can write "the product of a number and 6" as
The sum of this and 11 can be written as:
Now this "is 53" or
Now that we have this as an equation we can solve for
0 + (6 xx n) = 42#