ass="intersentencespace"></span> In other words, we’re asking,</p>
<div class="equation">\[ 
	  \text{``Which number times itself minus four gives 45?''}
	 \]
</div><p class="noindent">That is quite a mouthful, don’t you think?<span class="intersentencespace"></span> To remedy this verbosity, mathematicians often use specialized symbols to describe math operations.<span class="intersentencespace"></span> The problem is that these specialized symbols can be very confusing.<span class="intersentencespace"