SOLUTION: If you triple a number and then subtract 27, you get three-fourths of the origanal number. What is the original number?

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Question 224947: If you triple a number and then subtract 27, you get three-fourths of the origanal number. What is the original number?
Answer by ankor@dixie-net.com(22740) About Me  (Show Source):
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If you triple a number and then subtract 27, you get three-fourths of the original number.
3x - 27 = 3%2F4x
multiply equation by 4, results
12x - 108 = 3x
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12x - 3x = +108
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9x = 108
x = 108%2F9
x = 12
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Check solution in original equation
3(12) - 27 = 3%2F412