Construction of equations.
Get into your friends mind.

See if you can successfully guess the number I am thinking of.
First develop an equation and write it down on the right hand side.
Next see if you can undo all the operations and guess the number.

I think of a number. I multiply this number by 3 and then add 7 to get an answer of 40.
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I think of a number and add 8 to it. I then multiply the result by 4 before dividing by 5. The final result is 8.
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A number is doubled before 6 is added. The result is divided by 3 to get a value of 4.
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A number is tripled and seven added. The result is multiplied by 4 before 12 is subtracted to get a value of 28.
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Try this game on your friends. Develop your own equations and solve them to guess the number your friends think.
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