/sci/ - Science & Math

Anons im fucking retarded. I want to go for an engineering degree, but I am having trouble with

>intermediate algebra
>in fucking college
>because i coasted in high school

I am having the fucking hardest time trying to translate word problems into equations.

Question:
>Six less than the product of seven and the difference of a number and three is four times the number. What is the number?

Here is what my small brain had attempted

>Six less than the product of seven
7x-6

>the difference of a number and three
x-3

>is
=

>four times the number
4x

7x-6+x-3 = 4x
>correct answer is suppose to be 9
>I can't get 9

im doing something wrong, and im too fucking stupid to see what I am doing wrong.

>>8711880
>It can in some sense. Science isn't as rigid as you may think.
Yet another 4channer goes full retard.

>>8712150
>science has given us a lot, but also cost us a lot. in the emotional, eschatological, and psychological realms, the west has been wounded by science: it has become in many circles synonymous with 'not being a moron' that you reject the insubstantials of life, and the entire question of faith. but these are absolutely necessary. science is a tool - have we become the tool of science?
This. If you pay attention, the debate today isn't "are we in a dystopia", it's "what kind of dystopia are we in", and undeniably technology is a cause of misery. it's ideology to claim otherwise.

>>8712178
It's funny how scientists have no idea what science is. You're searching in the dark with no lights.

>mfw in Physics lecture
This shit is so hard to grasp conceptually. I've made a huge mistake.

>>8631806
Gg

I made a D in calc 1 this semester.
Tfw still gonna be a maf major

Who /complete academic failure/ here

>>7739417
why not?

Hey /sci/,
I'm a dumbo here. Can someone explain this article in simple English please?
Thanks lads!

http://www.ewao.com/a/1-scientists-now-believe-aliens-created-our-species-and-manipulated-our-dna