Question

On Saturday, the bookstore sold x books. On Sunday, the bookstore sold 3 more books than on Saturday. The expression 2x + 3 represents the total number of books sold over the weekend.

What does the "2" represent in the expression 2x + 3?


A. the number of books sold on Saturday.


B. how much more books were sold on Saturday.


C. the number of days.


D. the total number of books sold.

Answer 1

2 represents, 2 times of the number of books sold on saturday

A: x
B: 3
C: 2
D: 2x + 3

they didn’t give enough info i believe to get actual values

Answer 2

The number of days

Explanation:

Since the person sold at saturday and sunday, and it says x represents the number of books sold and 3 represents that 3 more was sold in sunday. Therefore we need to know how much it sold throughout the weekend, so we need to know the number of days to calculate, thus 2 must represents the number of days.