One subtracted from 12 times a number equals 35

Answer 1

So we need an equation to solve our word problem. Anytime we see "a number" we can insert a variable, or to make it easy X. We can further substitute a minus sign for subtracted from (make sure you subtract from the right number, this is tricky!) We can place a multiplication sign for times (order doesn't matter in multiplication) and an = for equals.

So: One subtracted from 12 times a number equals 35

becomes:

12x - 1 = 35 (the trickiest part is to make sure to subtract the one from the 12x and not the other way around).

Now to solve add one to both sides

12x = 36

Divide both sides by 12

x = 3

Hope this helps!

Answer 2

"One subtracted from" means that you will need to subtract one from something (-1).

"12 times a number" means that we will need to multiply a variable (since we don't know what this number is) with 12. We can make this variable x. So we can call this 12x since this means 12 X x (12 times x).

12x -1 = 35

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