Question

1. Mary has 5 apples, 7 bananas and 6 pears. Martin has 8 apples, 5 bananas and 10 pears. They let a stand for

the number of apples, b for the number of bananas and p for the number of pears. They put their fruit together and
represented it with the expression 5a + 7b+ 6p+ 8a+ 5b+ 10p. After they combine their fruit, what would the
coefficient of b be?
a
b.
The coefficient of b is 12
The coefficient of bis 13
1 point
c. The coefficient of b is 41
d The coefficient of b is 16

Answer 1

The coefficient of b would be 12

Explanation:

5a+8a+7b+5b+6p+10p

=13a+12b+16p

they are asking for the coefficient of b only and if both are

combined then it would be

7b+5b = 12b