When you multiply a number by 4 and then subtract 8, the…

When you multiply a number by 4 and then subtract 8, the result is the same as if you first subtracted 4 from the same number and then multiplied by 12. What is the number?

This problem repeats another one in the library (at most with different numbers), so it's left out of browsing.

AQuA-RAT — Algebra Question Answering with Rationales (Ling et al., DeepMind, 2017) · train #5047