Question

Jeremiah buys lunch from the school cafeteria each day of school. He buys one slice of pizza and two bags of chips. The pizza costs p dollars and the chips cost c dollars. The expression 5(p + 2c) describes how much Jeremiah spends on school lunches for the week. What does 5 represent in this expression?

Answer 1

5 repersents multiplycation of the numbers and varuable in the parenthaces

Explanation:

I belive you are trying to find x so becuse the unknown varible P and C are in parethaces ( ) they would be added and multiplyed first so now we have 5 wich is outside the parenthaces and becuse theirs no sighns of addition or subtraction its multiplycation because its so close to another number or variable