Three more than the quotient of a number and 4 is equal to 7 .

Question

write into an equation

Answer 1

Abrianna,

It looks like the question is to write an algebraic equation based on the written information.

Lets break it down:

3 more than means to add 3 to a number

quotient means the answer to a division problem

a number and 4 means to add 4

equal to 7 is exactly what that means

When "a number" is stated, you need to place a variable in for a number. The most common variable is "x" but any letter works.

Now that we broke that down lets go in order of how the question is written :

Three more than the quotient of a number and 4 is equal to 7

"+3" is three more

x/4 is the quotient of a number and 4

= 7

Without rearranging the number the equation looks like this :

+3 x/4 =7 but the words say 3 more than the quotient so we need to move the +3 to after the division

x/4 +3 = 7

(to clarify : the 3 is added to the whole fraction not the denominator)

x

--------- + 3 = 7

4

I hope this helps.