Question

A customer purchases a pair of jeans and a few shirts. Each shirt costs the same amount. The expression 60 + 20x represents the cost before tax.What do the different parts of the expression model? Drag the parts of the expression into the boxes to match each description. cost of jeanstotal cost of the shirts

Answer 1

We are told that the expression

`60+20x`

represents the total cost of the transaction. The problem tells us that the customer purchased a single pair of yeans and an indeterminate amount of shirts. We also know that each shirt costs the same amount.

Since we know that they purchased various shirts at the same price, the total cost of the shirts is an unknown number times the price of the shirt. In the expression given, the only multiplication is 20*x, so 20x must be the total cost of the shirts.

Since they only bought a pair of jeans, and the only remaing part of the expression is 60, 60 must be the cost of the jeans.