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Claire and Robert are both saving for an iPad Claire is saving $50 a week from her part-time job Robert got $40 for his birthday and is adding $20 a week from his job right expressions to represent the total each person will have after w, weeks.

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Problem

Claire and Robert are both saving for an iPad Claire is saving $50 a week from her part-time job Robert got $40 for his birthday and is adding $20 a week from his job right expressions to represent the total each person will have after w, weeks.​

Solution

For this problem w represent the number of weeks and we can write the following two expression:

Claire= 50w

Robert = 40 +20 w

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