Question

the united states house of representatives has 35 more members than four times the number of members in the United States Senate. Define a variable and write an expression to represent the number of members in the House of Representatives. Then find the number of members in the house of representatives, if there are 100 members in the senate.

Answer 1

1. set the United States Senate to X
2. equation will be 4x + 35 (This answer will be the number of members in the house of representatives)
3. plug in 100 in x
4. 400 + 35 = 435
The number of members in the house of representatives are 435.