Question

Translate this sentence into an equation; 14 less than Julie's score is 62. Use the variable m to represent Julie's score.

Answer 1

To solve problems like these, we must break it down for each term.

"14 less than Julie's score"
This implies that we are going to have 14 less than the variable that represents Julie's score (which in this case, is m).

m-14

"is 62"
"Is" is almost always used as a way of saying "=," and 62 is the value that it equals.

m-14=62

Using the reasoning above, we can see that an equation to represent this scenario is m-14=62.

Answer 2

First, when we hear "less than" we should think of subtraction. Since Julie's score is represented by m, 14 less than her score would be the same as m-14 because we need to use subtraction. Then since 14 less than her score is equal to 62, we can set m-14 equal to 62 to get our final answer which is m-14=62.

I hope this helps!