Question

What is the algebraic expression for the following word phrase: the product of 5 and p?
5 + p
5p
5 – p
5/p

Answer 1

The product of 2 numbers is the result of multiplying 2 numbers. That notation is shorthanded to simply writing the 2 multiplicands next to each other (with no arithmetic operation written out) if at least one of them is a symbol.

Answer 2

Here, "p" is a symbol, so we can write the 2 multiplicands right next to each other.

Answer 3

5p to put it simply.