Four more than the product of 13 and a number

Question

just need a step by step

 

Answer 1

So this question is trying to get you to make an equation

 

What you need to do is the following. 

 

1. The word product means multiplication

2. Since they didn't tell you what number you make a variable. A variable is a place holder like a letter that stands for a number.

3. That letter could be any number so that's why it fits with "a number" since they didn't tell you what number

4. Once you got that four more means addition so...

5. Your equation should look like 4+13x

See what I did there? I put the 13 and the x together, this means that they are multiplying, hence the "product of".

 

Answer: 4+13x