The phrase '8 times a number n' just means '8 times n', which can be modeled as 8 x n or 8n.
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Let N represent the 'number'. It looks like the first phrase would be expressed as 2(N + 5) which expands to 2N + 10, while the second expression would be 2N + 5, which is not the same.Notice that the first one is 2 times the sum, while the second is 2 times a number.
twenty four times a number and add 19
Let x represent the number. 2 times the number would be 2x, and 5 times the number would be 5x. The sum of the two would be 2X + 5x = 7x
the answer is three to a number minus one
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