document.write( "Question 665503: Eight less than the product of eleven and a number\r
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document.write( "and translate it into the language of algebra:\r\n" );
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document.write( "Replace the words \"a number\" by \"x\".\r\n" );
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document.write( "Replace the word \"Eight\" by \"8\" and the word \"eleven\" by 11:\r\n" );
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document.write( "Replace the words \"the product of 11 and x\" by \"11x\"\r\n" );
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document.write( "To make something 8 less than it is, you subtract 8 from it.\r\n" );
document.write( "We want to make llx to be 8 less than it is, so we subtract 8\r\n" );
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document.write( "Replace the words \"a number\" by x, the word \"ten\" by 10, and \"fifty\" by \"50\"\r\n" );
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document.write( "Replace the words \"the difference between x and 50\" by \"(x-50)\"\r\n" );
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document.write( "Replace that by\r\n" );
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document.write( "To find a total of two things you put a plus between them, so\r\n" );
document.write( "replace the words \"the total of z and 4\" by \"(z+4)\"\r\n" );
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document.write( "Replace that by\r\n" );
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