Copy the table below onto your paper and use your pattern skills to complete it. 

1. Explain in words what is done to the input value, $x$, to produce the output value, $y$.

   Answer (a):

   If you multiply $x$ by $−3$, you get $y$.

2. Write the process you described in part (a) in algebraic symbols.

   Answer (b):

   $-3x=y$