How do you express the phrase "Five times the number

surgrimpig3x

surgrimpig3x

Answered question

2022-02-07

How do you express the phrase "Five times the number of books is 95" as an algebraic expression?

Answer & Explanation

bubble53zjr

bubble53zjr

Beginner2022-02-08Added 14 answers

Step 1
Say that the number of books is n. Now "translate" the sentence into math. For example, "times" means multiplication and "is" means equals. It looks like this:
Five5 times× the number of booksn is= 9595
The final expression is
5×n=95
or
5n=95
Solving for n reveals that there are 19 books.

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