Question

how do you turn the product of 2 and the difference between t and 1 is 14 how do you turn that into an algebraic expression

Answer 1

The algebraic expression to represent this is: 
2(t - 1) = 14 
(t - 1) represents "the difference between t and 1" 
and the 2 before that multiplies (t -1) by 2. 
14 is what you get when you multiply 2 by (t - 1). 
Hope this helps!