Question

Blake has b baseball cards. His aunt gave him more cards, increasing his total number of cards by 25%. Which expression represents Blake’s total number of cards now? A. b + 0.25 B. b − 0.75b C. 1.25b D. 0.75b

Answer 1

the answer is A because we dont know how many baseball cards blake had so you would add .25 to b

Answer 2

Answer: C. 1.25b

Explanation:

Given : Blake has b baseball cards.

His aunt gave him more cards, increasing his total number of cards by 25%.

We can write 25% as 0.25.

Now, 25% of baseball cards will be : 0.25 x b= 0.25b

Now, the expression represents Blake’s total number of cards now :

b+0.25b= (1+0.25)b [t by distributive property ba+ca=(b+c)a]

=1.25b

Hence, the correct expression represents Blake’s total number of cards :

1.25 b