Suppose you have a pocketful of change. You have some pennies (p) and some quarters (q). One expression could be used to describ
e the total number of coins in your pocket: p + q. A second expression could be used to describe the amount of money (in dollars) in your pocket: 0.01p + 0.25q. Notice that each expression describes a different characteristic of the change in your pocket. Evaluate each expression for the situation where you have 6 quarters and 7 pennies in your pocket. Type the correct answer in each box. Use numerals instead of words. For the amount of money, do not enter a dollar symbol.
So we have two equations regarding the number of quarters <em>q</em> and the number of pennies <em>p:</em>
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Which represents the total amount of coins and
Which represents the total amount of money in dollars.
So we are asked to evaluation each expression for the situation in which we have 6 quarters and 7 pennies. Thus, plug 6 in for <em>q</em> and 7 in for <em>p:</em>
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This tells us that we have 16 coins in total.
This tells us that we have a total amount of $1.57.
So first you distribute the negative to the 6x and 13 which will flip the sign of both of them to -6x and -13 so take away the parentheses and the equation is now 7x-6x-13. You combine the x’s and you get 1x-13 or x-13