SOLUTION: How is the following verbal description written as an equation??? y equals seven more than two times the opposite of x.

SOLUTION: How is the following verbal description written as an equation??? y equals seven more than two times the opposite of x.

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Question 443200: How is the following verbal description written as an equation??? y equals seven more than two times the opposite of x.
Answer by swincher4391(1107) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Reading from left to right:
y = 7 + 2(-x)
y equals seven more (+) than 2* the opposite (-) of x.
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