Sense there's only a y, you'd assume y is 1 or 1y.
you'd make the 1 a negative 1 to get rid of the subtraction sign.
you'd add together the 2 ys making it 2y. then add -1 + 3, which would be 2.
so, the answer would be 2y + 2.
Answer:
49 can be broken down into 7 * 7 so the prime factorization is simply 7².
I believe that x=4 would be the answer