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The manager of a summer camp has 14 baseballs and 23 tennis balls. The manager buys some boxes of baseballs with 12 baseballs to a box and an equal number of boxes of tennis balls with 16 tennis balls to a box. Write an expression to represent the total number of balls. PLEASE PLEASE HELP I NEED IT DONE TONIGHTTT

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u want full equation?

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Answer

baseballs:14+12n

tennies balls: 23+16n

14+12n+23+16n

14+23+12n+16n

(14+23)+(12n+16n)=37+28n

(n= the number of boxes of each type)

Step 1: We write expressions for the total number of baseballs and tennis balls

Step 2: We find an expression fr the total number of balls:

We combine the above expressions:

We use the Commutative Property:

We combine like terms:

( the answer is 37+28n)

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