SOLUTION: Write the following phrase using symbols. Use the variable x to represent the number. Eight less than three times a number

SOLUTION: Write the following phrase using symbols. Use the variable x to represent the number. Eight less than three times a number

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Question 92901: Write the following phrase using symbols. Use the variable x to represent the number. Eight less than three times a number
Answer by chitra(359) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The given expression is:

Eight less than three times a number

Let us represent the number by "x" .

so according to the given expression, we have 3x - 8

Thus the solution.

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