SOLUTION: please help me with the follwing question,please can you help me work it out: If i multiply a certain number by 5,i get the same answer as when i subtract the number from 48. What

Question 342357: please help me with the follwing question,please can you help me work it out: If i multiply a certain number by 5,i get the same answer as when i subtract the number from 48. What is the number?
Answer by Fombitz(32388) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let's call the number .
Translate the words into expressions with
"multiply a certain number by 5"

"subtract the number from 48"

The two values are equal.

Add to both sides.

Divide both sides by

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