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The quotient of a number and 5 increased by 8 is equal to 14

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The answer is 7

A quotient is the answer of a division.
Let
x
be the unknown number.
The quotient of
x
and

5
is
(
x

5
)
.
"Increased by one" means add
1
, so now we have
(
x

5
)
+
1
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