Question

Kenneth and Antonio are buying plants for the school garden. They want to buy 8 pepper plants for $2 each and 12 tomato plants for $3 each. The expression 8•2+12•3 represents the cost. In dollars of the plants.

Answer 1

8 times 2 is 16 and 12 times 3 is 36. So 16 plus 36 is 52