Question

Two-thirds of a number is negative six. Find the number.

Answer 1

-9 would be your answer 

Answer 2

Let the unknown number be x . Given Two-thirds of a number is negative six.

Two third of the number x can be written as :
`(2)/(3) x`

Given this equals -6.

`(2)/(3) x =- 6`

To solve for x we multiply by 3 both sides

2x=-18

Dividing both sides by 2 we have:

x=-9.

The unknown number is -9.