SOLUTION: The difference between some number and negative eight is the same result as three times the unknown value...How do you translate this word problem?

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Question 1046922: The difference between some number and negative eight is the same result as three times the unknown value...How do you translate this word problem?
Found 2 solutions by josgarithmetic, ikleyn:
Answer by josgarithmetic(39630)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Some number, n.


Answer by ikleyn(52910)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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The difference between some number and negative eight is the same result as three times the unknown value...How do you translate this word problem?
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I'd translate it in this way:

n - (-8) = 3n,   or, which is the same, as

n + 8 = 3n.



The equation |n-8| = 3n of the other tutor is absolutely wrong.


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