One of the two digits of a two digit number is three times the other digit. If you interchange the digits of this two-digit number and add the resulting number to the original number, you get 88. What is the original number?

Explanation

To solve the problem step by step, we can follow this approach:

### Step 1: Define the digits
Let the unit digit of the two-digit number be \( X \). According to the problem, the other digit (the tens digit) is three times the unit digit. Therefore, we can express the tens digit as:
\[ \text{Tens digit} = 3X \]

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