Question

What is one-third of a number less than nine is equal to seven as an equation?

Answer 1

9-⅓x = 7

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Answer 2

Answer:

The equation is given by:

        $9-\dfrac{1}{3}x=7$

Step-by-step explanation:

Let the number be denoted by x.

Now, we are given a word phrase as follows:

One-third of a number less than nine is equal to seven.

Now this word phrase could be mathematically expressed as a equation by:

  one-third of x is: 1/3 x

and this number less than 9 is given by:

$9-\dfrac{1}{3}x$

Now, this number is equal to 7.

i.e. we finally have:

$9-\dfrac{1}{3}x=7$