4 times what equals 42?

4 times what equals 42? In other words, what do you multiply by 4 to get 42? If "x" is "what" in the sentence, "4 times what equals 42?", then the equation to solve the problem is as follows:

4 • x = 42

Which can be written as:

4x = 42

To solve the equation above, we need to remove the 4 on the left side to make the x alone. To do that, we divide both sides by 4.

4x/4 = 42/4

4x/4 is x and 42/4 is 10.5 which means our equation will look like this:

x = 10.5

Thus, the answer to "4 times what equals 42?" is 10.5.

To double-check our work, multiply 10.5 by 4 to see that it equals 42. (Note that our answer on this page is rounded to 4 digits if necessary.)

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