In order to solve this exercise, you need to remember the following:
- The word "less" indicates subtraction.
- The word "times" indicates multiplication.
- The word "more" indicates addition.
- In this case, the word "is" indicates that the sign is "=".
Let be "n" a number.
Knowing the above, you can determine that "Fourteen less than five times a number" can be expressed as:
And you know that " Twelve more than three times a number" can be expressed as following:
Therefore, "Fourteen less than five times a number is twelve more than three times a number" can be written as the following equation:
Solve for "n" in order to find the number. Then, this is:
The number is:
