Question

Here are 15 players on a volleyball team. The coach is ordering a sweatshirt for each player that costs 25 plus an additional $2 for each letter of the teams' name on the back of the sweatshirt. She uses the expression 15(25+2x) to calculate the total cost for all the sweatshirts. What is another way to write that expression?a. 375 + 30xb. 25 + 30xc. 40 + 2xd. 375 + 2x

Answer 1

a. 375 + 30x

Step-by-step explanation

Another way to write this expression is to apply the distributive property of multiplication over addition,

`15(25+2x)=15\cdot25+15\cdot2x=375+30x`

Hence, another way to write this expression is 375 + 30x.