Question

Leon's age can be described as 1 less than 4 times his cousin’s age. If his cousin’s age is represented by the variable "m", write the algebraic expression representing Leon's age using "m".

Answer 1

(1-m)4 ??

Answer 2

@lysbadiukiewicz let's do this in steps

Answer 3

Please lol

Answer 4

Cousin's age is represented by the variable m
Leon's age can be described as 1 less than 4 times his cousin’s age.
What is 4 times his cousin's age in terms of m?

Answer 5

m(1-4) ?

Answer 6

no just 4 times his cousin's age. Not the expression

Answer 7

suppose I have x, what is 4 times x???

Answer 8

4x

Answer 9

so what's 4 times cousin's age ( m )?

Answer 10

4m? I'm confused, lol, I'm terribly sorry, I'm bloody horrible at math :x

Answer 11

4x(m)?

Answer 12

@lysbadiukiewicz I'm here to explain you, 4m is correct
now what's one less than 4m?

Answer 13

3m?

Answer 14

m is a variable along with 4,
so we can't just subtract 1 from it
it'll be 4m -1
when we get the value of m then only we can find it in terms of a number.
But the question doesn't ask this, neither it has the required information
do you get my point?

Answer 15

Yes :) Thank you!

Answer 16

so could I ask you a simple question?

Answer 17

Sure :)

Answer 18

what's 5 less than 3x?

Answer 19

3x-5?

Answer 20

good:D you're correct:)

Answer 21

Yay! Basically its like putting the second part of the problem first and the first part last?

Answer 22

Yeah but we need to read the information given carefully. I'll give you an example

Answer 23

here we had "1 less than 4 times his cousin’s age." so it boils down to= 4m -1
other case could be
" 4 times of 1 less than the cousin's age" it'll be =4 (m-1)
do you understand the difference?

Answer 24

The key words, right? Like in the first one, it just said 1 less than 4 times, in the second it said 4 times OF 1 less than.

Answer 25

yeah, correct:D

Answer 26

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Answer 27

Glad to help:D

Answer 28

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