Question

LaTricia wrote a sentence as an equation.

Twelve is the product of three and a number.




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Answer 1

A LaTricia is not correct. The word product does mean to multiply, but 12 should be the product and 3 should be one of the factors.

Explanation:

Answer 2

Twelve is the product of three and a number.

Product: an answer given due to multiplication.

Since Twelve is described as the product of three and a number, it is our answer.

?? = 12

Twelve is the product of three and a number. since it is a product, that means their was multiplication involved. using the clues "Three and a number", we can deduce that these are multiplied to get our product, which is twelve.

if it says number, then that represents the unknown variable of the equation. this is usually defined as X or any other letter(s) if their is more than one variable or if it is specified.

3X = 12