Question

Five added to 2 times a number is equal to 7 less than 4 times the number.

What is the number?

Answer 1

6

Answer 2

really

Answer 3

100% omg

Answer 4

do you have a better answer?

Answer 5

Five added to 2 times a number is equal to 7 less than 4 times the number. What is the number?

Name the number. Seriously. This is about half the difficulty of the problem.

The number we will refer to as M.

Now, just decode

"2 times a number" is 2M
"Five added to 2 times a number" 2M + 5
"4 times a number" is 4M
"7 less than 4 times the number" is 4M - 7

One more thing...