How would you translate this into an equation one third of the number is 12 less than the number itself

Ily begins solving the equation 4(x – 1) – x = 3(x + 5) – 11. her work is shown below. 4(x – 1) – x = 3(x + 5) – 11 4x – 4 – x = 3x + 15 – 11 3x – 4 = 3x + 4 how can her partial solution be interpreted?

Combine the information in the problem and the chart using the average balance method to solve the problem.

The difference of two numbers is 40. find the numbers if 0.3 parts of one number is equal to 37.5% of the other one.