How to translate words into equations

sum and total means you need to do addition
less than and difference means you need to do subtraction
product, multiply, times, and of means you need to do multiplication
quotient means you need to do division

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Step-by-step explanation:

To find the value of this equation when , we can substitute this value inside the equation and use PEMDAS to successfully find the value.

With the expression of , let's substitute -2 in as x.

Now let's follow PEMDAS to solve this equation.

PEMDAS states that when solving an expression/equation, the order we must follow is

ParenthesesExponentsMultiplication/DivisionAddition/Subtraction

We can now solve for this.

We see that exponents come before multiply and dividing. Therefore:

So the value of our first term is 8.

Our second term will be , and our last term will remain -3.

Adding these values together:

Therefore, the value of this expression when x = -2 is -3.

Hope this helped!