Malachy was thinking of a number. Malachy halves it and gets an answer of 38.2. What was the original number

x=Original number =76.4

Step-by-step explanation:

Let the original number Malachy was thinking about be x

Halving it becomes = 1/2 x

the equation to solve for x = 1/2 x = 38.2

so that x = 2 x 38.2

x=76.4

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step-by-step explanation:

we need to solve for 'x' the following equation:  

we have that:

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factorizing, we get that:

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then, the solutions are: or

nothing extraneous has been found!