Question

How do you translate “ the difference of a number and eight, divided by 10 “ into a mathematical expression?

Answer 1

Hint: First, to do this question, you need to go step by step. In the first part of the question you need to find the difference between a number and eight. So take a number as a variable x and then subtract it with x. Next you are asked to divide it by 10. So now, you need to divide the whole equation that is the x – 8 by 10. Now you get the mathematical expression.

Complete step by step answer:
Here is the complete step by step solution.
The first step is to write the difference of a number and 8. Here the number is not specified. SO ,we need to take it as an unknown variable. Let us take the unknown number as x. So according to the question we need to subtract x with 8. Therefore, we get
$\Rightarrow x - 8$
The next step is to do the next part of the question. IN the next part of the question, we are asked to divide the equation by 10. So, we need to divide the whole equation that is x – 8 with 10. Therefore, we get,
$\Rightarrow \dfrac{x-8}{10}$

Therefore, the answer for the question is $\dfrac{x-8}{10}$.

Note: you need to read the questions carefully. You need to do it step by step. First do the part which is given at the first and then continue. If you do it from the last, you may end up with a wrong answer.