Five added to 6 times a number is equal to 2 less than 8 times the number. What is the number? Write the equation to solve and then find the answer to the question.
The equation is 5+6*x=2-8*x... and the answer is: 17 How I got this is you have to combine like terms... you get:11*x=-6*x 17*x=x than divide by x... which than gives you 17...
