Ok, so let’s take the given phrase. Eight more than the product of 3 and a number is -13. A translation to numbers looks like this: 3x + 8 = -13 Now, let’s solve for x. We can start the process by subtracting 8 from both sides. 3x = -21 now, we will divide each side by 3 to isolate the variable, thus solving for x. x = -7
