Question

The student council is asking people to donate money for the new park outside the school. Everyone who makes the suggested donation amount will be given a bracelet. If everyone donates the suggested amount, and b bracelets are given away, what algebraic expression represents the total amount collected in donations? Please explain! Thanks!!

Answer 1

If you let b = # of bracelets and D = amount donated to get a bracelet, then the total amount collected in donations would be number of people who donated and got a bracelet (b) times the amount of the suggested donation (D). So the expression would be...

b×D or bD

*note- we didn't include an equals sign or a variable for the answer because it asked for an expression and not an equation.

Answer 2

Explanation:

Given that The student council is asking people to donate money for the new park outside the school. Everyone who makes the suggested donation amount will be given a bracelet

If all people donate the suggested amount then the total amount collected would be equal to

b times the suggested amount.

If suggested amount is S (say) then people who donate S is given a bracelet

Since b bracelets are given, amount collected

bS

(Note: Normally bracelets would be given if amount donated is >=S

Hence amount collected would be appropriate as

≥bS