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Yolanda is buying supplies for school. She buys n packages of pencils at 1.40 per package and m pads of paper at 1.20 each. What does the term in the expression 1.4n + 1.2m represent? What does the entire expression represent?

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The entire expression represents how many packages of pencils and pads of paper bought.
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