Try to break the expression down into terms and operations, then break those terms into factors.
Example Solution: 1 more than the product of 9 and a number n.
Practice makes perfect
Our approach to representing the given algebraic expression verbally will be to break it down into terms and operations.
9n + 1In this expression, second term is being added to the first term. Let's break it down into more digestible pieces.
Algebraic Term
Verbal Translation
n
a number n
9n ⇔ 9* n
the product of 9 and n
+
more than
Now that we have translated each of the pieces, let's bring it all together. We increase 9n by 1, thus a number 1 should be the first term in ... more than ... expression.
& 9n + 1
& 1 more thanthe product of 9 and a number nNote that this is only one of many ways to write this expression.
