SOLUTION: Is the verbal translation of -3(2x-4) the product of negative three and two times a number minus four?
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Question 698197: Is the verbal translation of -3(2x-4) the product of negative three and two times a number minus four?
Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Your verbal translation is ambiguous. It could mean what you have written symbolically, but it could also mean multiply -3 times 2x and then add -4 to the product. To make it clear, I would phrase it thus:
"The product of negative three and the quantity consisting of the product of two and a number, said product reduced by four."
John
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My calculator said it, I believe it, that settles it
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