What is the product of five and twice a number

Question

The algebraic expression

Answer 1

To solve the equation, you need to look at the vocabulary that is present in the problem. I see the words: product, and, twice, and number. Product automatically makes this expression a multiplication problem. And means that there is an addition portion to the expression. Twice would be two times a number (there's that multiplication part coming in!)

So lets start with what we know.

The product of 5 and twice a number

5 + 2 x

What we don't know is what the number is in the problem. So what I like to do, is to leave the x to represent the number. As the unknown. So our expression would be

5 + 2x

Answer 2

What is the product of 5 and twice a number

1) First we must understand what a product is. Product is the answer to a multiplication problem

2) So how you should start is multiplying together 5 and twice a number. Twice means 2 and a number is just a variable. We will call that variable x. 5•twice a number ——-> 5•2x——-> 10x

The answer is 10x

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Mrs. S.