SOLUTION: The sum of three times a number and 7 more than the number is the same as the difference between -11 and twice the number. What is the number?

Question 15517: The sum of three times a number and 7 more than the number is the same as the difference between -11 and twice the number. What is the number?

Answer by Earlsdon(6294) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The first step is to translate the problem from a word description to an algebraic equation: Let n be the missing number.
Simplify.
Add 2n to both sides.
Subtract 7 from both sides.
Divide both sides by 6.

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