Two less than one-third of the product of nine fourths and twelve

Question

how is this put in word form

Answer 1

(9/4)(12)(1/3) -2

= 9-2

= 7

two less than one-third of the product of nine fourths and twelve equals seven

SEVEN = the surprise simplification of the complicated convoluted expression.

Use PEMDAS to avoid making mistakes

"PRODUCT" means Multiplication

1/3 "OF" means multiplication

"LESS THAN" means Subtraction

9/4 "AND" 12 means Addition

PEMDAS means M before D before A before S

Multiply before Dividing before Adding before Subtracting

otherwise you might try to subtract 2 from 1/3 to get

1/3-2=1/3-6/3 = -5/3

then (-5/3)(9/4)(12) = -45

but whoever wrote the original sentence might have intended to mean that, unlikely though