Question

Translate the sentence into an equation.

Twice the difference of a number and 6 is 2.

Use the variable for the unknown number.

Answer 1

Hey there!

We want to multiply a certain quantity by 2, so we will put the two outside of parentheses and put our variable (x) minus two inside the parentheses to represent this. This will all equal two.

2(x-6)=2

The unknown number is also 7.

I hope that this helps!