Question

2 times the quantity of 19 decreased by a number

Answer 1

Step-by-step explanation:

So, word problems like this can be very tricky and difficult to understand. I always suggest breaking down information in these problems piece by piece by creating two categories: Known's and Unknowns.

When organizing our problem into two categories, we are able to decipher the data in a digestible manner and then begin organizing our data accordingly.

It is my preference to always start with known values first, therefore in the case of this problem it says decreased by 52 and twice a number. A number is an unknown since we do not have the exact number so we will get to that later, but let's focus on our known values. The know value in this case is 52 so we can add that to our known category,