Question

Ms. Langlois has 26 pencils and Mr. Cox has a certain number of pencils. Write an expression that represents the combined number of pencils Ms. Langlois and Mr. Cox have.

Answer 1

We know Ms. Langlois has 26 pencils.

We DO NOT know the amount of pencils that Mr.Cox has, we can use the variable "x" to represent Mr.Cox's number of pencils.

An expression is just an expression, not an equation, so it DOES NOT require a "="

The expression could be represented as 26+x