Problema Solution

Use the five-step strategy for solving word problems to find the number or numbers described in the following exercise.When four times a number is added to 9 times the number, the result is 52. What is the number?

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you need to provide information that is not explicitly included... what five-step strategy is being taught??


let 'x' represent the number, then we have:

4x+9x = 52

solving for 'x' we have x=4


the number is 4