SOLUTION: If 4 is added to a number and the sum is tripled, the result is 20 more than the number. Find the number.

Question 414616: If 4 is added to a number and the sum is tripled, the result is 20 more than the number. Find the number.
Answer by praseenakos@yahoo.com(507) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let the number be, 'n'
Questions says:
4 added to the number ==> n + 4
Then trippled ==> 3(n+4) = 20 more than the number
==>
==> distributed 3 over n+4
==> subtract n from each side
==>
==> subtract 12 from each side

==>
==> divide 2 on each side

==>

so the number is

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