Question

Four more than the product of a number and 3 equals 7.

Answer 1

The phrase you typed can be written in mathematical form using a replacement of "a number" with the letter "x" (for our unknown).

So we can translate in mathematical form as shown below:

"four more than the product of a number and 3 equals 7"

x * 3 + 4 = 7

and of course we can solve this equation by operating with thenumbers so as to isolate the unknown "x"on one side of the equal sign:

Subtract 4 from both sides:

x * 3 = 7 - 4

x * 3 = 3

Divide both sides by 3 (so as to eliminate the factor 3 multiplying x):

x = 3 / 3

x = 1

And our answer is that the unknown number is 1 (one).