How do you translate "the product of a number and three" into a mathematical expression?

1 Answer
Jun 5, 2018

#3n#

Explanation:

"The product of a number and three" should be #3n# where n is the number.

IN the answer of the question you would have to explain something like this:
Let n be the number. The product then is #3n#.

The reason for this is that you could also let m stand for the number, in which case the answer would be #3m#.