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A number divided by 4 is 6. What is the number?: animated lesson

A narrated, step-by-step word problems video lesson with captions. Final answer: The number is 24.

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Video narrated by a synthetic voice (Piper TTS, en_US-ljspeech-high voice (LJ Speech dataset, public domain)); the steps come from our maths engine and the answer was checked independently. Download MP4 (0.3 MB) · Captions (WebVTT)

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1. The problem
Worked example
A number divided by 4 is 6. What is the number?
2. Step by step
1. Read the problem
2. Solve the linear equation
3. The answer
$\text{The number is 24}$
The number is 24
4. Check
- Substitute x = 24: (24) / 4 = 6 ✓

Transcript

The problem. Here is the problem: A number divided by 4 is 6. What is the number? Let x be the number: “a number divided by 4” becomes x / 4.

Step by step. Read the problem. Let x be the unknown number. “a number divided by 4 is 6” translates to x / 4 equals 6. Solve the linear equation. 0.25x plus 0 equals 6 → x equals (6 minus 0) / 0.25 equals 24.

The answer. So the answer is The number is 24. Let x be the number: “a number divided by 4” becomes x / 4.

Check. Substitute x equals 24: (24) / 4 equals 6, which checks out.

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Turn everyday situations about prices, speed, ages and interest into equations and solve them.

A number divided by 4 is 6. What is the number? (Lesson)