Challenge: Existing neural approaches to solve algebraic word problems have a plausible answer, but this belief has less been verified due to Q.
Approach: They propose a neural model EPT-X which utilizes natural language explanations to solve an algebraic word problem.
Outcome: The proposed model achieves an average performance of 69.59% on a PEN dataset and produces explanations with quality comparable to human output.

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