Exercise 65 Page 15

To translate the verbal expression into an algebraic expression, we need to first consider the meaning of the written phrase. The words more than indicate that we should add two things. ... + ...What should we put on the left and right-hand side of the addition sign? The verbal expression, 4 more than p tells us that we are adding an arbitrary number to 4. 4mo &re than p & 4 + p Recall that, due to the Commutative Property of Addition, the order of terms does not affect the sum. Because of that, we can rewrite the expression as below. p + 4