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Objective a: Reading and translating word problems 3 There are a couple of special words that you also need to remember. Double or twice a number means 2x, and triple or thrice a number means 3x. Example 1: Use the tables above to translate the following English phrases into algebraic expressions. Let x the unknown number. A) 5 more than a number.

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