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Write a description and a word problem for the expression 3x + 17

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The given expression is


3x+17

The description and the word problem can be written as 17 more than three times the number x.

the word problem is,

There are b boys in the class. The number of boys is 17 greater than three times the number of girls.

Then take the number of girls as x.

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