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Translate each sentence into an equation.

1: three more than a number is eight.
2: two less than three times a number is eleven.
3: the number x is seven more than one fourth of itself.
4: two times the quantity x minus 1 is 12.
5: nine times x is twice the sum of x and five.

User Matheus
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Some of the answers that the other user put are wrong.
These are the correct ones
1)n+3=8
2)3n-2=11
3) 1/4x+7=x
4)2x-1=12
5) 2(x+5)=9x
User Tobifasc
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1). n+3=8
2). 2-3n=11
3). 1/4+x
4). 2x-1=12
5). 5x = 9x
User Franky McCarthy
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