Eli had $10, but he lost some of it. His mom doubled the money he had left. Eli wrote the expression 2(10 – k) to show how much
money he has now, where k is the amount of money he lost. Aisha wrote another correct expression, 20 – 2k, to also show how much money Eli has now. Use the drop-down menus to explain what each part of Eli's and Aisha's expressions mean.
In the story it said Eli's mom doubled the money he left, that is what the two represents. 10 is the original amount he had. -k is the money he lost.
Equation 2
20 is the the result of the original 10 being multiplied. -2k, now the 2 is still the amount that the mom doubled his amount by, and the k is how much money Eli lost.
