Question

A store manager realizes that he has too many jeans in stock. After he finished taking inventory, he has a total of 688 jeans. He decides to reduce the stock by having a buy one get one free sale. That means that every purchase will reduce this inventory by 2 pairs of jeans.

The expression below describes this situation.

688−2x

A. What does the expression represent?

A. the number of jeans sold with each purchase

B. the number of jeans the stock is reduced by from each sale

C. the total amount of jeans in stock after each sale

D. the number of jeans purchased

Answer 1

I think that it is A. I'm tired and it is two in the morning

Answer 2

Remaining amount of jeans after x sales = 688 - 2x

In this expression

2x = The number of jeans purchased.

-2 = The number of jeans the stock is reduced by from each sale.

2 = The number of jeans sold with each purchase.

Explanation:

Given information:

Total number of jeans = 688

He decides to reduce the stock by having a buy one get one free sale. It means that every purchase will reduce this inventory by 2 pairs of jeans.

Average rate of change = -2

Let x be the number of purchase.

So, the total amount of jeans in stock after each sale is

Remaining amount of jeans after x sales = 688 - 2x

In this expression

2x = The number of jeans purchased

-2 = The number of jeans the stock is reduced by from each sale.

2 = The number of jeans sold with each purchase