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What are two ways you could represent the expression 3-4n

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There are not just "the two ways" to represent this expression. There are two ways, surely, but they are not the only ways as implied.

You could expose 4 and get something like
4((3)/(4)-n) or expose 3 and get something like
3(1-(4)/(3)n).

But you could also say something like
3-(1+3)n=3-n-3n=-3(n-1)-n... in fact there are a lot of ways to write any expression.

Hope this helps :)

User Zhangqy
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