Twelve times a number is 96. What is the number?

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Answer 1 · 2016-11-14T18:08:36

The number is 8.

Finding the answer is not difficult, but how to write the math for it is quite important.

With a place holder:

#12 xx square = 96#

#12 xx 8 = 96#

As an equation:

#12 xx x = 96#

#x = 96/12#

#x = 8#

Answer 2 · 2017-06-07T16:32:35

8 is the number.

#x# is going to represent the number. So let's start!

#x*12##=##96#

#x##=##96##*##1/12# (Isolate #x#)

#x##=##cancel96^8/1##*##1/cancel12^1#

#x##=##8#

So 8 is the number!

Reminder: Remember that #times# and #*# are both the same thing!

Check the answer:
#8##times##12##=96#

Yep, it's right!

I hope this helps!

-Moksha