A student was required to multiply a number by 4 and add 6 to it. Instead he added 6 to it first and then multiplied by 4. What
should he do to his answer to get the correct one? If the wrong answer is 36, what is the correct one?
Answer:
If n is the number, the wrong expression is :
.
The correct expression is :
.
He needs to the wrong expression to get the correct one.
The correct answer is
.
1 answer:
Answer:
The correct answer is 18
the correct expression is 
Step-by-step explanation:
let the number be n
therefore if he is required to multiply n by 4 and added to 6 we have

given that he did otherwise by adding 6 to n and multiply by 4 we have

Firstly we need to solve for n in equation 2

Dividing both sides by 4 we have

In order to solve for the correct answer let us input n=3 in equation 1 we have

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