Question

Owen receives $10 and puts it into his savings account. He adds $0.50 to the account each day for a number of days, d, after that. He writes the expression 10+0.5(d−1) to find the amount of money in his account after d days. Which statement about his expression is true?

A) It is the product of the initial amount and the additional amount after d days.


B) It is the sum of the initial amount and the number of days, d.


C) It is the difference between the initial amount and the additional amount after d days.


D) It is the sum of the initial amount and the additional amount after d days.

Answer 1

It is the sum of the initial amount and the additional amount after d days.

Answer 2

D) It is the sum of the initial amount and the additional amount after d days.

He is adding them together to find the sum, not multiplying them together to find the product.