300 reduced by 5 times my age is 60
Let my age be a. We have:
5 times my age = 5a
300 reduced by 5 times my age means we subtract 5a from 300:
300 - 5a
The word is means an equation, so we set 300 - 5a equal to 60 to get our final algebraic expression:
300 - 5a = 60
If you have to solve for a, you type this equation into our search engine and you get:
a = 48
Let my age be a. We have:
5 times my age = 5a
300 reduced by 5 times my age means we subtract 5a from 300:
300 - 5a
The word is means an equation, so we set 300 - 5a equal to 60 to get our final algebraic expression:
300 - 5a = 60
If you have to solve for a, you type this equation into our search engine and you get:
a = 48