Cindy was asked by her teacher to subtract 3 from a certain number and then divide the result by 9. Instead, she subtracted 9 and then divided the result by 3, giving an answer of 43. What would her answer have been had she worked the problem correctly?
<spanclass=′latex−bold′>(A)</span>15<spanclass=′latex−bold′>(B)</span>34<spanclass=′latex−bold′>(C)</span>43<spanclass=′latex−bold′>(D)</span>51<spanclass=′latex−bold′>(E)</span>138