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And here's your shmoop du jour.

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Which of the following represents the statement,

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"six more than seven times a number, y, is equal to 73"?

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Here are the potential answers...

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And spoiler alert, hit pause. Try it yourself.

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Ok, the evil wizards are testing our technical math-vocabulary skills.

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We just have to read the question carefully, and we'll get to the promised land.

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So... let's... go.

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"six more than"

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Translation?

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"six plus"

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Now, they don't say "the quantity of" next but we can infer.

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"seven times a number" -- so ... glance at the question set and they throw you a curve ball...

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...one of the answers has x as a variable; the others are all y...

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...yet the problem only asks about y... so it's pretty safe to cross out c as a possibility...

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because there ain't no x in this problem.

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So we have the 7 times a number as 7y.

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And then "is equal to 73" is just written as equals 73

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Put it all together and we have 6 + 7y = 73

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Flip the order of the first two terms...

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...and it looks like our answer is D. Done. And there ain't no more to do.

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