Question

40 is equal to 4 more than 3 times a number. What is the number?

Answer 1

let

the number =x

Therefore the word expression can be represented mathematically as

$40=3x+4$$\begin{gathered} 40-4=3x+4-4 \\ 36=3x \\ x=\frac{36}{3} \\ x=12 \end{gathered}$