X - Ollie's age
8 is subtracted from Ollie's age = x-8
the result is the same as
subtracting 16 from 3 times his age = 3x-16

Ollie is 4 years old.
Answer:
2x-6
I don't know what you mean by correction, but that's in expression form.
Answer: 69
Step-by-step explanation:
Let the original employee be x , this means that
116% of x = 80
= 80
116x = 8000
divide through by 116
x = 8000/116
x = 68.96551724
Since we are dealing with employees , therefore x ≈ 69
This means that there were 69 employees originally
Answer:
D. 9,700
Step-by-step explanation: