SOLUTION: If seven times a number decreased by eight is the same as two times the number increased by twenty seven. What is the number?

Question 644515: If seven times a number decreased by eight is the same as two times the number increased by twenty seven. What is the number?
Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Hint:

If seven times a number decreased by eight is the same as two times the number increased by twenty seven.

translates to

7n - 8 = 2n + 27

Solve that for 'n' to find the unknown number.

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