Question

Ms. Waston made a cake that has a silkscreen photo on the icing. The width of the square photo on the cake is 3 times the width of the original photo, n. The area of the icing in square inches can be found with the expression shown below. Which statement best describes the term (3n)?

Answer 1

the formula for the width of the photo on the cake

Explanation:

The term 3n is best described as the formula for the width of the photo on the cake. That is because, as described in the question the original photo has a width of length n. While the photo on the cake is 3 times that of n, meaning that the formula is stating that the width of the photo is 3 multiplied by the value of n. Which is represented as 3n, just as shown in the question. Therefore, that would be the best representation of that term.