SOLUTION: If you triple the number and subtract 4 from the result you will get 80. What is the number?

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Question 985479: If you triple the number and subtract 4 from the result you will get 80. What is the number?
Answer by Edwin McCravy(20060) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
If you triple the number 
That's 3x

and subtract 4 from the result 
That's 3x-4

you will get 80. 
That's 3x-4=80

What is the number?
Solve it and see.

Edwin