Patrice cuts a piece of board 3' long from a board that is x feet long. find an expression that describes the length in feet of the original board length
clearly, the length was x.
I guess you could note that x > 3
The length of the original board can be described by the expression:
x + 3 feet
To find an expression that describes the length in feet of the original board, we need to subtract the length of the piece that was cut from the original board length.
Given that Patrice cut a piece of board 3' long from a board that is x feet long, the length of the original board can be expressed as:
Original board length (in feet) = x - 3.