Finding Numbers! URGENT!

[PreAlgebraDummy15]

thnx for the help bfore...here is another few problems:

The product of a number and 9, increased by 4 is 58. Find the number

The quotient of a number and -7 decreased by 2 is 10. Find the number

 

[stapel]

What have you tried? How far have you gotten?

For instance, for the first one, you've picked a variable for the unknown number (what letter are you using?), you've created "the product of that number and 9" (recalling that "product" means "times"), and... then what?

Eliz.

 

[Denis]

thnx for the help bfore...here is another few problems:
The product of a number and 9, increased by 4 is 58. Find the number

9n + 4 = ?

The quotient of a number and -7 decreased by 2 is 10. Find the number

n/-7 - 2 = ?