SOLUTION: How do you write 3 times a number is decreased by 5 and the difference is doubled the result is 14 less than twice a number

SOLUTION: How do you write 3 times a number is decreased by 5 and the difference is doubled the result is 14 less than twice a number

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Question 923027: How do you write 3 times a number is decreased by 5 and the difference is doubled the result is 14 less than twice a number

Answer by MathLover1(20850) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

First name your variable "a number".
let it be
times a number,

Decreased by (subtract from it), so all put together.

Doubled,

The result means "="
Twice the number,

less than twice the number

So now put the left hand side and the right hand side together along with "="

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