SOLUTION: Please help me solve this word problem find the number such that when it's treded and 7 is subttrated,the result is 8

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Question 1200620: Please help me solve this word problem
find the number such that when it's treded and 7 is subttrated,the result is 8
Found 3 solutions by Alan3354, josgarithmetic, MathTherapy:
Answer by Alan3354(69443) About Me  (Show Source):
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What it "treded?"

Answer by josgarithmetic(39621) About Me  (Show Source):
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"treded"?
To tred?
A number is treded and the result is 15.
Tred is, multiply by 3? TRE can be seen in the word, maybe to mean "TRIPLE".

Five, if tripled and then subtract 7, gives 8
5%2A3-7
15-7
8

Answer by MathTherapy(10555) About Me  (Show Source):
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Please help me solve this word problem
find the number such that when it's treded and 7 is subttrated,the result is 8

If by "treded" you meant "trebled," then read on!

Let number be N
Then we get: 3N - 7 = 8
                 3N = 15
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