What Divided by 23 Equals 69?

Here’s how you would set up this question as an equation:

The goal of the problem is to solve for x. To do this we need to change the equation so that x is alone on one side of the equation.In this case, we can do that by multiplying both sides of the equation by 23, resulting in this equation:

Then we simplify and find our answer:

So, the answer to the question “What divided by 23 equals 69?” is 1587.To prove this, we can take the original problem:

And insert 1587 in the place of x:

Because this is true, the answer must be correct.

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