Question

A group of 5 friends go to a basketball game each person but a tickets for the game and 2 cans of soda. Let t represent the cost of a ticket and c represent the cost of a can of soda. write two different expression that represent the total amount this group spent

Answer 1

5(g + 2s)

5g + 10s

G stands for game ticket and s stands for soda ticket.

Explanation:

Let the ticket for the game be g and for soda be s.

This implies that one person spent

g + 2s.

Since they are five in number, they all spent in total:

5(g + 2s), this is the first expression.

The second way of expressing it is opening the brackets, so we have:

5g + 10s, this is the second expression.