Question

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Sandra's MP3 player holds songs of 3 different genres: Classical, Pop, and Rap. There are five times as many Classical tracks as there are Pop tracks, and there are seven times as many Rap tracks as there are Pop tracks. Let x represent the number of Pop tracks. Write an expression to find the total number of tracks on the MP3 player.

Answer 1

5x + 7x + x = total number of songs

Explanation:

x represents the number of pop tracks

since there are 5 times as many classical as there are pop then classical can be represented by 5x

since there are 7 times as many rap as there are pop then rap can be represented by 7x

when adding all these together you will find the total number of songs on the MP3