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If you triple a number and add 11, you get 200. What is the number?
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If you triple a number and add 11, you get 200. What is the number?

User IgorOK
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Set up an equation, we can call the mysterious number "x"
So we have:
3x + 11 = 200
Solve for x:
3x = 189
x = 63
User Alec Gerona
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3x + 11 = 200
3x = 189
x = 63
The number is 63
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