Question

James has $32 and earns $10 per week for his allowance. What is the initial value for the scenario described?

Answer 1

32 is your initial value, because that is what he starts with

Answer 2

in an arithmic equastion it would be exspressed as X=32+(10*Y)  with X being total amount and Y being the number of weeks he worked

or it can simply be 32+(10*Y)