Question

The sum of eight and eleven times a number is 151. What is the number? A) Translate the statement above into an equation that you can solve to answer this question. Do not solve it yet. Use x x as your variable.

Answer 1

The number is 13.

Explanation:

We are given the following in the question:

Let x be the variable, then according to the question

"The sum of eight and eleven times a number is 151"

We can write the equation:

`8 + 11x = 151`

Solving the equation, we can write:

`8 + 11x = 151\\11x = 151-8\\11x = 143\\x = 13`

Thus, the number is 13.