Keshia C. answered • 08/23/19
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Certified Math teacher for Grades 5-12
You are hopefully just writing an expression. If there is no equals sign, it is just an expression.
5 times the sum of a number and 8
Let x be the number.
5 times the sum of x and 8
Sum means addition
5 times x+8
5(x+8)
