In math and science you might meet a variable with a subscript. Don’t let them scare you, they’re just a way to keep track of variables that could be related to each other in some way. For instance, if we’re doing a problem involving the distance that two people travel, we might use the variables D_A and D_B to indicate the distances related to person A and person B, respectively.
Read MoreWhy use subscripts instead of different variables? Well, the variables in science often represent something specific. For example, P stands for pressure and in some equations you’ll have more than one pressure represented. In that case we use subscripts: P_1, P_2, P_3, and so on.
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