Question

Eight less than the product of 6 and a number equals 5. How do I write this as an equation?

Answer 1

Hint: In the question we are asked write Eight less than the product of 6 and a number equals 5 as an equation. So, first you can see that there is less than. Therefore, you have to do subtraction. Then you have a product of 6 and a number. Therefore, we have to multiply them. Here take the number as x. But this whole thing equals 5. Then we get the final answer.

Complete step-by-step answer:
In the given question we have to write Eight less than the product of 6 and a number equals 5 as an equation .
To solve this, first we do the product of 6 and x that is the unknown number. That is we will multiply them and then we will subtract 8 from this. Then we write this whole thing equal to 5. Then we get our final equation or the answer.
First, we multiply 6 and a number.
$6\times x=6x$
Then we have to subtract 8 from it. Therefore, we get:
$6x-8$
But this whole thing equals 5. so we get:
$6x-8=5$
Therefore, we get the final answer that is the final equation of the question as $6x-8=5$.

Note: In order to solve this question, you have to understand the question properly. Then we have to do this step by step. Be careful while writing the numbers in the equation. Read the question twice before solving it.