document.write( "Question 698197: Is the verbal translation of -3(2x-4) the product of negative three and two times a number minus four? \n" ); document.write( "

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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "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:\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "\"The product of negative three and the quantity consisting of the product of two and a number, said product reduced by four.\"
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\n" ); document.write( "My calculator said it, I believe it, that settles it
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