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What equation could be used to solve the problem below?

If three times a number is increased by 24, the result is 4 less than seven times the number.

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3x+24=7x+4

The reason it is +4 even though it says the number is 4 LESS than the number times 7 you want to make them equal to be able to solve for x
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