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How do you translate the word phrase into a variable expression: sum of two numbers is thirty three?

Answer 1

# x + y = 33#

We use variables, " letters", to represent numbers in a variable expression. In your question, it stated you had two numbers, which are unknown, so I represented the first number with #"x"# and the second with #y# . The sum of the two numbers was given to be #33# so the variable expression became # x + y = 33#.

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Answer 2

Savannah Anderson

The variable expression for "the sum of two numbers is thirty-three" is ( x + y = 33 ), where ( x ) and ( y ) represent the two numbers.

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Answer from HIX Tutor

When evaluating a one-sided limit, you need to be careful when a quantity is approaching zero since its sign is different depending on which way it is approaching zero from. Let us look at some examples.