The answer is -10. I think about negative numbers on a number line with numbers being behind and in front of the zero. To check the answer you can imagine being on -10 and when it says to minus a number you always know that it’s going to go further into the negative. So -10-10 is -20.
4a = 36
to solve for a, divide both sides by 4 to get a by itself.
<u>4a</u> = <u>36
</u> 4 4
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</u>a = 9
<u>ANSWER:</u>
Kari bought 3 boxes of cookies to share. The algebraic expression is 
<u>Solution:</u>
Given, Kari bought 3 boxes of cookies to share with a book club.
Each box contains 12 cookies.
So, in total we have 3 x 12 cookies = 36 cookies.
Now, we have to find how many cookies can each person p will get.
Let, the total number of persons be x.
Then, after equally sharing the cookies,


Hence, the algebraic expression is 
I like to think of the - or under as the less likely to happen like a cat beating up a bear u don’t want to put your money on the cat so everyone puts there money on the bear making the bear the over and the cat the under