Question 160370
If you add one third of a number to the number itself, you get 48. What is the number?

In other words, 1/3(x) + 1/3 = 48

We can write 1/3(x) simply as x/3.

We now have this fractional equation:

x/3 + 1/3 = 48

Can you take it from here?

If not, write back.