Question

A camp leader figures that she needs one tent for every three campers, plus a tent for herself. Define a variable and write an expression to represent the number of tents needed. write algebraic expression

Answer 1

Answer: The expression can be T(X) = X/3 + 1 where X is the number of students, and we always should round up our solution if it is not a whole number.

Step-by-step explanation:

She needs a tent for every 3 campers, and she also needs a tent for herself.

This means that if X is the number of campers, we need to have:

T(X) = X/3 + 1

this means that we divide X into groups of 3, and for each group of 3 we have one tent, plus one that we need for the camp leader.

now, if for example we have 10 campers, we will have:

T(10) = 10/3 + 1 = 3.33 + 1

So we will need to round up the number of tents to 4 + 1

Answer 2

3t+1
The t stands for tent, and is being multiplied by 3 because there is always going to be 1 tent for every 3 campers. Plus one, for the camp leader.