Question

Isaiah wants to save up to buy a $325 electronic tablet. He makes $14 per day mowing lawns in his neighborhood. He has $31 already saved. Isaiah wrote an equation to determine how many days he needs to mow lawns before he can afford the tablet. His equation is T=px+r where T is the cost of the tablet and x is the number of days he needs to mow lawns. What is the value of p in his equation? p=

Answer 1

P is how much he makes each day so $14 dollars

Answer 2

Since every day he gets 14 dollars, he answer would be 14x, meaning that every day, he gets 14 more dollars. Just in case you were wondering also, the r is the 31 dollars he already has