Thrice the same number.
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2 times a number minus 17 plus 20 times a number minus 9 is the same as 2x - 17 + 20x - 9 = 22x - 26
Whatever the variable was.
The number is -13.
Not by itself. Fourteen (14) is a number (noun) or a numeral (determiner or adjective used with nouns). In the construction "he jumped fourteen times" the term "fourteen times" becomes an adverbial, in the same sense as the adverbs twice or thrice.
"Minus a negative number" is the same as "plus a positive number" so you have a positive plus a positive number - making a bigger positive number.