The difference between a number and a 3 is no more than 2

Answer 1

Let's use the variable, x to represent the unknown number.

The term, "difference", indicates subtraction.

We can represent the" difference between a number and 3" as: x - 3

Now we can show that this difference is no more than 2 as: < 2

Combining these gives the following inequality:

x - 3 < 2