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It is given in the question that
Ann, Chang, and Kareem sent a total of 89 text messages over their cell phones during the weekend. Ann sent 9 fewer messages than Chang. Kareem sent 3 times as many messages as Ann.
Let number of messages Chang sent be x. And Ann sent 9 fewer than Chang, so Ann sent (x-9) messages. And Kareem sent 3 times as many messages as Ann, so Kareem sent 3(x-9) messages.
And the total messages are 89. That is
Combining like terms
So Chang sent 25 messages, Ann sent
And Kareem sent
Given:
The expression is
To find:
The expression which is not a correct way to rewrite the given expression.
Solution:
We have,
Using distributive property, we get
Using distributive property the given expression can rewritten as:
Only the expression in option A is not a correct way to rewrite the given expression because is not distributed to
properly.
Therefore, the correct option is A.