Question

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 a equal number of boxes of tennis balls with 16 tennis balls to a box. Write an expression to represent the total number of balls

Answer 1

To set up an equation correctly, it is important to understand the problem statement and the given values. We do as follows:

initial number of balls = 14 + 23 = 37
number of baseballs per box = 12
number of tennis balls per box = 16

we let x as the number of boxes

Total number of balls = 37 + 12x + 16x
Total number of balls = 37 + 28x