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To make things easy at her yard sale, Tina has decided to price everything at $2 or $5. The total amount of money Tina will make from the yard sale, P, can then be described with the equation P = 2x + 5y. In this equation, what does the variable y represent?

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y is anything that is sold at 5 dollars
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The correct answer among all the other choices is B. the number of $5 items sold. In this equation, the variable y represent the number of $5 items sold. Thank you for posting your question. I hope this answer helped you. Let me know if you need more help.
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