Then 9 of something is equal to 10 of it less one of it. Here, that "something" is four.
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This illustrates a shortcut for multiplying by 9 that can be convenient for mental arithmetic. The idea is to multiply by 10, which just involves adding 0 (or moving the decimal point), then subtract the original number.
A number (we don’t know the number so I’ll use X) plus five. So we can start the equation of with X+5 then divided by 3=7 so X+5➗3=7 so to solve what X is we can just go in reverse. 7 TIMES 3= 21-5=16 so X=16