Question

Noelle bought some boxes of snacks (s) for a picnic. Each box had 12 bags of

snacks in it. Noelle then ate 1 bag of snacks before the picnic. Write an expression to
show how many bags of snacks Noelle brought to the picnic. Use s to show the
number of boxes.

Answer 1

12s-1

12 multiplied by the variable,s, because we don’t how many boxes she bought, and minus one because she ate 1.