SOLUTION: Write the sentence as an equation, using x for the unknown number. Then solve the equation. Four times a number added to 8 times the number equals 48. Find the number.

SOLUTION: Write the sentence as an equation, using x for the unknown number. Then solve the equation. Four times a number added to 8 times the number equals 48. Find the number.

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Question 94819: Write the sentence as an equation, using x for the unknown number. Then solve the equation.

Four times a number added to 8 times the number equals 48. Find the number.
Answer by tutorcecilia(2152) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
8+4x=48 [solve for the x-value]
8-8+4x=48-8
4x=40
4x/4=40/4
x=10
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Check by plugging (x=10) back into the origina equation:
8+4x=48
8+4(10)=48
48=48 [checks out]

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