Big Ideas Math: Modeling Real Life, Grade 6
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Exercise 4 Page 238

What operation does less than represent?

32/y-6

We are asked to write an algebraic expression for the given verbal expression. The key phrase in the verbal expression is less than ... This indicates that we should subtract two things.

... - ... The two terms that we are subtracting together are 6 and the quotient of32 andy Since we want to subtract 6, it should be on the right-hand side of the subtraction. The quotient can be written as a fraction. 32/y - 6