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tictactaaj22 said:
Four times a number was 22 greater than twice the same number. What was the number?
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The given information tells us that subtracting the smaller multiple from the larger multiple gives their difference as 22.

Perhaps, the instructor hopes that you'll think of something like "If I have four multiples of the number, and I take two away, I'll still have two multiples left, and that tells me what twice the number is, so the requested number must be half of that".

Otherwise, you could try a brute-force method, and look at rows or columns in the multiplication table, searching for the required multiples of the same number that differ by 22.

By the way, do you have any thoughts about how to approach this exercise? Or, maybe you don't understand something about the question? I don't know what kind of help you expect because you didn't ask any questions of your own. 8-)

 
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