12-x/-4 - What would the answer to this be?

Answer 1

Hello, Matthew,

12-x/-4

As written, this looks like 12 minus the quantity (x/-4).

I suspect you actually mean (12-x)/-4

The last expression says take (12-x) and divide by -4. It is quite different.

If the first expression is written the way you meant it, the only thing I can see to do would be to simplify the (-x/-4) term to simply +x/4 or - 0.25x.

If the second form is what you want:

This can be rewritten as: 12/4 + x/4

This is equal to 3 + (1/4)x

Bob