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Sarah Is going to pay for an item using gift cards. The clerk tells her that she will need 2 gift cards and an additional $3 to pay for the item. Write an algebraic expression to model the situation using the variable g for the number of gift cards to pay her total bill, t.

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t = 2g+3. Good luck! :) 
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Answer:
2g+3

Explanation:

Given : Sarah Is going to pay for an item using gift cards. The clerk tells her that she will need 2 gift cards and an additional $3 to pay for the item.

The number of gift cards is denoted by 'g'.

Then, the total algebraic expression to model the given situation bill is given by:-


2g+3

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