SOLUTION: Translate into an equation and solve. Eight plus five times a number. What is the number?

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Question 361908: Translate into an equation and solve.
Eight plus five times a number. What is the number?

Answer by Alan3354(69443)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
If the number is n, then 5 times it + 8 =
5n + 8
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It's not an equation, there's no equal sign, so there's nothing to solve.

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