<PRE><B>Question 698197</B>
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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:


&quot;The product of negative three and the quantity consisting of the product of two and a number, said product reduced by four.&quot;
  

John
*[tex \LARGE e^{i\pi}\ +\ 1\ =\ 0]
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My calculator said it, I believe it, that settles it
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