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Writing Variable Expressions

Translate word phrases into algebraic expressions, including products, division, and two-operation expressions like 12x + 19 or 4x - 17.

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What are we learning?

A variable expression uses a letter to stand for an unknown number. In this topic, the phrases are short, but they can combine operations: product, more than, less than, divided by, increased by, and decreased by.