Question

LaTricia wrote a sentence as an equation.

Answer 1

Option A that is best describes the given scenario is option A that is “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.”

Solution:

Given that LaTricia wrote a sentence as an equation.  Given sentence is “Twelve is the product of three and a number”

Expression written by LaTricia = $12w = 3$

Lets first concentrate on sentence and we will create our expression based on sentence and check it against the expression created by LaTricia.  Let the number represented by variable w.

So product of 3 and the number will be represented by $3\times w = 3w$

And as Twelve is the product of three and a number

$12 = 3w$

That is three is one of the factor and result product is 12. Hence option A that is best describes the given scenario is option A that is “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.”