SOLUTION: Translate " the product of a number and two less than the number" into a variable expression.

SOLUTION: Translate " the product of a number and two less than the number" into a variable expression.

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Question 114560: Translate " the product of a number and two less than the number" into a variable expression.
Answer by ptaylor(2198) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

Let x=a number
Then x-2=two less than the number
Now "the product of a number and two less than the number"
is
x(x-2) read as x times the quantity x-2

Hope this helps---ptaylor

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