document.write( "Question 710787: Write in symbols by usingx as the variable. Four times a number added to 5 \n" ); document.write( "
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document.write( "The other tutor is wrong because he did not interpret correctly.\r\n" );
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document.write( "\"Four times a number\" is written 4x.\r\n" );
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document.write( "So when 4x is added to 5, we must begin with 5\r\n" );
document.write( "and add 4x to it, so the correct answer is\r\n" );
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document.write( "5 + 4x\r\n" );
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document.write( "[Notice that it is not \"4x + 5\", because that would be\r\n" );
document.write( "when 5 is added to 4x,  It is the same mathematically,\r\n" );
document.write( "but we must learn to interpret exactly because in other\r\n" );
document.write( "cases it matters which comes first.] \r\n" );
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