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A number decreased by 30 is the same as 14-3 times the number. What is the number?
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A number decreased by 30 is the same as 14-3 times the number. What is the number?

User Terry Kernan
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I got x=11

solution process: x-30=14-3x

-30=14-4x
-44=-4x
44=4x
11=x
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