Question

Sarah’s neighbor offers to pay her $5 for every shark tooth she finds on the beach. After collecting only three shark’s teeth, Sarah decides to share the opportunity with her friend John. Sarah can find shark teeth twice as fast as John, but she can earn even more money with his help.

Sarah can use the expression 5(2j + 3 + j) to represent the amount of money they can earn.

Write a few sentences to end Sarah’s story. How many shark teeth did she find? How many shark teeth did John find? How much money did they earn?

Answer 1

Ok so first you want to mutiply 5 and 2j which gets you 10j then 5 x 3 which equals 15 then you mutiply 5 and j which gets you 5j then you add like terms which are the two j’s and that will get you 15j + 15