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Q: What is the number in front of a variable 5x?
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The number in front of the variable is the..?

The number in front of the variable is called the coefficient


What is the term used for the number multiplied by the variable like the number 5 in the expression 5x?

the coefficient


What is a amount muliplied by a variable called?

if you mean something like 5x, where 5 is the number and x is the variable, the 5 is called a coefficient.


What is the definition of constant used in math?

A number without a variable. Ex.) 5 is a constant, 5x is not.


A number multiplied by a variable?

A number, multiplied by a variable is part of an Algebraic equation. A person can find out the value of the variable if they divide each side by the number that is next to the variable. For example, if the equation is 5x = 60, divide each side by 5 and the answer is x = 12.


The number in front of the variable?

The coefficient


What is cofficient in term 5x?

5x 5 is the coefficient and x is the variable.


What number that has no variable?

Such a number is called a "constant". If the number appears in front of a variable, it is sometimes called a "coefficient".


What is the answer to y equals 5x plus 3?

There are an infinite number of answers... you need one variable to find the other.


How do you write an expression for five times a number plus three?

If the variable x represents the number: 5x + 3ParenthesesExponentsMultiplyDivideAddSubtractAlways remember this


What is the number factor of a variable called?

The coefficient is in front of a variable.


What do you call a number that is not in front of a variable?

Possibly, a "constant term".