SOLUTION: Double the sum of a number and 5 is the same as fourteen more than triple the same number. Find the number. Your help is appreciated. thank you, kimberley

SOLUTION: Double the sum of a number and 5 is the same as fourteen more than triple the same number. Find the number. Your help is appreciated. thank you, kimberley

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Question 697298:

Double the sum of a number and 5 is the same as fourteen more than triple the same number. Find the number.
Your help is appreciated.
thank you,
kimberley
Answer by checkley79(3341) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
2(X+5)=3X+14
2X+10=3X=14
2X-3X=14-10
-X=4
X=-4 ANS.
PROOF:
2(-4+5)=3*-4+14
2*1=-12+14
2=2
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