Using algebra makes stuff like this easy. 8x + 1 = 12x - 3 4 = 4x The number is 1! One more than 8 times 1 is 9. 12 times one, decreased by 3, is also 9.
'''who else has trouble with math and then gets ridiculed and made fun of by teachers and adults and other, smarter students and then just wants to die?''
