Question

Tom started a stamp collection with 32 stamps each week he added 8 to his collection. Rhea started with 102 stamps each week she gave away 6

Answer 1

The total number of stamps that Tom collect at the end of X weeks is

`32 + 8 * X`

Explanation:

Complete question

Tom started a stamp collection with 32 stamps. Each week he added 8 stamps to his collection.

Rhea started her stamp collection with 102 stamps. Each week she gave away 6 stamps.

Write an equation to represent the number of stamps in Tom’s collection based on the number of weeks he has been collecting stamps.

Solution

Let "X" be the number of weeks for which Tom collected the stamps

The number of stamps that Tom had at the time of starting the collection
`= 32`

It is given that he collects 8 stamps per week

So the total number of stamps that Tom collect at the end of X weeks is

`32 + 8 * X`