Question

Yolanda is buying supplies for school. She buys n package of pencils at $1.40 per package and m pads of paper at $1.20 each. What does each term in the expression 1.4n+1.2m represent? What does the entire expression represent?

Answer 1

1.4n represents the price and number of packages of pencils. 1.2m represents the number of paper pads and the price