How do you write x-6 in verbal expression

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Coby Gibbs

Mathematics

15 October, 23:16

How do you write x-6 in verbal expression

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Ethen Barker · Answer 1

x is just a stand-in for an unknown/variable number, so we could use phrases like "a number," "a value," "an unknown," etc. Here, I'll use "a number." We can verbally refer to the result of subtraction as "the difference" as well, so we can write x - 6 in English as "The difference of a number and 6."