Laurie Ann works 8 hours a day . So far today she has worked x hours . How many hours are left in her workday?
8-x
To find out how many hours are left in Laurie Ann's workday, we can subtract the number of hours she has already worked from the total number of hours she works in a day.
Let's denote the total number of hours Laurie Ann works in a day as "8" and the number of hours she has already worked as "x".
To find out how many hours are left, we can subtract x from the total:
8 - x
The expression 8 - x represents the number of hours that are remaining in her workday.