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What operation does "less than" represent?
3n-4
The term that we are subtracting is "four," it should be on the right-hand side of the subtraction. ... - 4 "Three times a number n" tells us to multiply n by 3. Now we can complete our expression. four less than three times a number n 3 n - 4 Note that this is only one of multiple ways to algebraically express the given verbal expression.