Step-by-step explanation:Before you can tackle complex word problems, you need to know how to translate simple problems into algebra. Generally, you'll do this by replacing the words with operators that mean the same thing. So for instance, four divided by x could be 4 ÷ x. ÷ and / are just two ways of writing divided. If you were to translate this word for word, you'd change the word times to a multiplication symbol (⋅) and put a plus sign (+) between the four and the two. Your expression would look like this:
