Translate this phrase into an algebraic expression.
more than twice Jose's score
Use the variable to represent Jose's score.
I suspect so. You can also see that the letter used to represent the score is also omitted.
That's the danger of copy/paste on this web site: text often does not paste properly.
in any case, "more than" means you add ...
To translate the phrase "more than twice Jose's score" into an algebraic expression, we can start by assigning a variable to represent Jose's score. Let's use the variable "J" for this.
Now, let's break down the phrase "more than twice Jose's score."
"Twice Jose's score" means multiplying Jose's score by 2. So, we can write this part of the expression as 2J.
The word "more than" implies addition. So, to indicate that we want to add something to "twice Jose's score," we need to add another term.
Putting it all together, the algebraic expression for "more than twice Jose's score" using the variable J is:
2J + x,
where "x" represents the additional part that is not specified in the given phrase.