Question

How do you write $5n-10> 26$ in words?

Answer 1

In this problem, we have to write the given mathematical expression in words or statements. We should know some mathematical words to find the required answer. We can first analyse the question, then we can proceed to write the statement. We can see that there is a product, subtraction and an inequality, we can combine them in word to write the statement for the given mathematical expression.

Complete step by step solution:
We know that the given mathematical expression to be converted into words is,
$5n-10>26$
We can now find the correct words for each term and then we can combine them.
We can see that the first term is the multiplication of 5 and n, which we can say as ‘product’.
Now we can take the next term 10, which is subtracted from the product.
At last we have an inequality, where here we have a ‘greater than symbol’.
We can now combine the above steps and we can write it as,
‘The product of five and n, minus ten is greater than twenty-six’.
Therefore, the statement for $5n-10>26$ is ‘The product of five and n minus ten is greater than twenty-six’.

Note: Students make mistakes while writing the correct word for the respective mathematical expression. We can also write the given equation in some other forms, such as ‘The difference between five times n and ten is greater than twenty-six.