Which of the following expressions could be interpreted as "a number times negative seven added to five equals two"?

It depends on how you interpret the statement.

( x * -7 ) + ( 5 - 2 )

x * ( -7 + 5 ) - 2

Step-by-step explanation:

"a number times negative seven added to five equals two"

Let's set as our number.

So the statement would translate to:

To simplify, we might try to organize things by adding some parentheses. But that's when things start to get a little.....dicey.

Depending on how you interpret the original statement, both and can satisfy the statement.

Herein lies our problem. Which of the two expressions is correct?

Well.....both of them, actually. It just depends on how you're interpreting the statement and what options you have available.

If you can only pick one, but all of the expressions are possible options, then you're kind of stuck.

stew reads at the fastest rate of 265 words per minute.

step-by-step explanation:

it's a given that felicia reads at 260 word per minute and on connie's graph we can see that she reads 200 words per minute. since stew's table tells us that he read 795 in 3 minutes, we can divide 795 by 3 to find out how many words he reads per minute.

795/3 = 265

stew reads 265 words per minute - he reads at the fastest rate since felecia reads at 260 words per minute and connie reads at 200 words per minute.

stew (265) > felecia (260) > connie (200)

look at the picture.

y-intercept for the function on a picture is 4 → point (0, 4).

y-intercept for the function

is for x = 0. substitute:

y-intercept is 8 → point (0, 8).