The sum of a number and 8 is 33. What is the number?

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Answer 1 · 2017-03-18T15:13:10

I got #25#

Call your misterious nmber #x#; you can write:
#x+8=33#
take the #8# to the right changing sign:
#x=33-8=25#

Answer 2 · 2017-03-20T14:51:40

25

33 can be split into 8+25

So the number is 25