SOLUTION: If you add 34 to a certain number, the sum is less than 3 times the number. What is the smallest number for which this is true?

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Question 1032982: If you add 34 to a certain number, the sum is less than 3 times the number. What is the smallest number for which this is true?
Answer by fractalier(6550) About Me  (Show Source):
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Let us call the number x. Then we write
34 + x < 3x
Now subtract x and reverse the inequality...we get
34 < 2x
2x > 34
x > 17
18 would then be the smallest integer.