Writing numerical expressions
The question
3 times as large as 215 + 159
Which expression is 3 times as large as 215 + 159?
Read it in order, then say which way around
null= a number
adding
3 × (215 + 159)
- The phrase is "3 times as large as 215 + 159". The letter null is the number nobody has told us; everything else in the phrase says what to do to it.
- The words say we are adding.
- "more than" makes 215 bigger, so 215 is what is added to.
How it works.
- 01
The phrase is "3 times as large as 215 + 159". The letter null is the number nobody has told us; everything else in the phrase says what to do to it.
- 02
The words say we are adding.
- 03
"more than" makes 215 bigger, so 215 is what is added to.