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Question

Some number added to -11 is 37. Divide this number by -12. Then, multiply by -8. What is the final number?

Answer 1

Hi there!

Here, it seems like we just have a string of algebraic expressions shown as word problems. To solve this, we can just separate it into its components:

"Some number added to -11 is 37": this is saying -11 + x = 37, so solving for x we get that the number is 48.

"Divide this number by -12": we take the number we found, 48, and divide by -12 which gives us -4.

"Then, multiply by -8": for the final step, we take our -4 and multiply by -8 to get 32, which is our final answer.

I hope this helped, and let me know if you have any more questions!

Answer 2

Some number added to -11 is 37. Divide this number by -12. Then, multiply by -8. What is the final number?

Take it step by step. It begins with: Some number added to -11 is 37. 37 is positive, so we know a positive was added to -11 to get 37, and the number must have been greater than 37 (11 greater, to be exact, since we took 11 from it). So add 11 to 37 to find that number. 37 + 11 is 48. Go back and check to verify this is correct.

48 + (-11) = 37. That checks out.

Next step is to divide this number by -12. This means divide 48 by -12.

48 ÷ -12 would be -4.

Next instruction is to multiply this by -8. -4 X -8 = 32.