3 Added to eight times a number is the same as three times the value of two times the number minus one. What is the number?
Answer:
So pretend the number was r
3+8r=3(2r-1)
8r+3=6r-3
Like Terms~
8r-6r=-3-3
2r=-6
r=-3
Your answer is 3
Hope that helps and good luck
~May
