It is 3*n - 5
If the higher is 3 times the lower, the difference must be twice the lower so the numbers are 8 and 24.
If the number is x then the expression is: 2x+8
12
2x-16
One number is eight more than twice another if their difference is 25. The larger number is 42
It's an example of converting something easy into something nearly impossible, and then expressing it obscurely. Behind the veil lies an almost trivial algebra exercise. Although the question doesn't ask for the solution to the exercise, here it is anyway, at no extra cost: -- The difference between (eight times a number) and (twice the number) is (six times the number). -- (Six times the number) is eighteen. -- (the number) is one-sixth of eighteen, or three.
|5n - 2n|
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18
It is 3*n - 5
Twenty more than twice a number is 52
2 x = 8 + 4x
It is 5n - 8 <= 2n + 10
4*(2x + 8) = 32
2x - 16 = 3x/18
twice a number means a number times 2