The phrase less indicates that we are performing a subtraction.
... -...
The two terms we are subtracting are b and the quotient of two numbers. Furthermore, the phrase less the quotient... indicates that the quotient should be on the right-hand side of the subtraction since it is the one being subtracted.
... - quotient
The verbal expression tells us that we should divide k by 5. Note that we can write division as a fraction.
"ient ofa number kand 5
& k ÷ 5 ⇔ k/5
Now we can form our final expression.
a number bless the quotient of k and 5
b - k/5
