Question

Piper is at the grocery store and plans on buying cans of soup and frozen dinners, but

is concerned about their sodium content. Each can of soup has 150 mg of sodium and peach frozen dinner has 450 mg of sodium.

How many milligrams of sodium are there in 4 cans of soup and 2 frozen dinners?

How many milligrams of sodium are there in c cans of soup and f frozen dinners?

Answer 1

1,500 mg

150c + 450f

Explanation:

Each can of soup has 150 mg of sodium and each peach frozen has 450 mg of sodium.

Piper plans to buy some of each product and wants to know how many milligrams of sodium are there in 4 cans of soup and 2 frozen dinners.

Since each can of soup has 150 mg of sodium, 4 cans have 4*150 = 600 mg of sodium.

Each frozen dinner has 450 mg of sodium, thus 2 of them have 2*450 = 900 mg of sodium.

There are 600 + 900 = 1,500 mg of sodium in this combination.

If Piper buys c cans of soup and f frozen dinners, they will have 150c + 450f milligrams of sodium.