Which operation can be used to represent less than?
Equation: x=195-12 Solution: 183 points
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To find our final score, we first need to write an equation.
...=...
We are told that our final score x is 12 points less than our friend's final score. Since x comes before is in the verbal expression, it will be written on the left-hand side of the equation.
x=...
Observing the score card, we can see that our friend scored 195 points. The phrase 12 points less than your friend's score indicates that we should subtract 12 from 195.
x= 195 - 12
To calculate our final score x we need to simplify the right-hand side of the equation.
