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We have to find the number that satisfies: "Four times a number plus two is equal to 3 times the number".
Four times a number is 4x.
Then, we can write and solve the expression as:
[tex]\begin{gathered} 4x+2=3x \\ 4x-3x=-2 \\ x=-2 \end{gathered}[/tex]The number is -2.