Question

The manager of a summer camp has 14 baseballs and 23 tennis balls. The manager buys some boxes of baseballs with 12 baseballs to a box and an equal number of boxes of tennis balls with 16 tennis balls to a box. Write an expression to represent the total number of balls.

A. Expression: 12(14) + 16(23)
B. Expression: 14(12) + 23(16)
C. Expression: 9(12) + 9(16)
D. Expression: 14(12) + 23(9)

Answer 1

The expression to represent the total number of balls is 14(12) + 23(16).

Step-by-step explanation:

The expression to represent the total number of balls is B. Expression: 14(12) + 23(16). To find the total number of baseballs, we multiply the number of boxes of baseballs (14) by the number of baseballs in each box (12), which gives us 14(12). Similarly, to find the total number of tennis balls, we multiply the number of boxes of tennis balls (23) by the number of tennis balls in each box (16), which gives us 23(16). Then, we add the total number of baseballs to the total number of tennis balls to get the total number of balls in the camp.