Question

Jamal bought 2 packs of stickers and 8 individual stickers. Use x to represent the number of stickers in a pack of stickers and write an expression to represent the number of stickers Jamal bought. Is the expression equivalent to 2(4+x)? check your answer with algebra tile models.

Answer 1

That is correct because normally it would be written as 2x + 8, but with the equation you provided, you would do distributive property and end up with the same answer.