Isaac is making soft pretzel nuggets. His recipe says that, after he makes the dough, he should divide it into 8 equal pieces. T
hen, he needs to roll each piece into a 2-foot-long rope and cut it into nuggets. If he decides to make each pretzel nugget 1 inch long, how many can he make in all?
If Jackson went to the movies and payed $7 initially for his ticket and then payed $2 for each box of candy that he buys, then the equation could look like this: y = 2x + 7, where y represents the total cost and x represents the number of boxes of candy Jackson buys.
