Question

A ticket to a museum costs $8. A ticket to the dinosaur exhibit costs $5. The expression 8n+5n represents the cost in dollars for n people to visit the museum and the exhibit. What is a simpler form of the expression 8n+5n

Answer 1

Answer: n(8+5)

Step-by-step explanation:because n (8+5) =8n +5n

Answer 2

The equation which represents the people that want to visit the museum and the exhibit is 8n+5n.
As you can see, the variable n is present in both terms 8n and 5n of the equation, so we can now factor the equation. You create parenthesis in which you put inside 8+5 and then you throw the variable n outside the parenthesis, and you get at last:
8n + 5n = (8+5)n

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