w = 1/3 ( x + y - z)

Answer 1

To simplify this expression, we can distribute the 1/3 to each term inside the parentheses:

w = 1/3 * x + 1/3 * y - 1/3 * z

This simplifies to:

w = x/3 + y/3 - z/3

So the simplified expression for w is w = (x + y - z) / 3.