SOLUTION: what is fourteen less than three times a number equals the number?

SOLUTION: what is fourteen less than three times a number equals the number?

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Question 513376: what is fourteen less than three times a number equals the number?
Answer by umail08(87) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let x = the number
3x �. Three times the number
3x - 14 � fourteen less than three times a number
3x � 14 = x �. Final equation

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