One possible answer is 8H + 4L = 512
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Explanation:
- H = number of high resolution photos
- L = number of low resolution photos
H and L are placeholders for positive whole numbers, or 0 could replace either variable.
1 high resolution photo takes up 8 mb of space, so H of them take up 8H megabytes of space.
1 low resolution photo takes up 4 mb of space, so L of them take up 4L megabytes.
Overall, the two types of photos take up 8H+4L megabytes, which is equal to 512 since that's the max capacity. That leads to the equation 8H+4L = 512
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Extra info:
There are other ways to express the equation 8H+4L = 512. We could divide each part by 4 to get 2H+L = 128, but I think this equation loses its descriptive quality in a way. We no longer can see that each high resolution photo takes up 8 megabytes (instead we might mistakenly think only 2 megabytes are used per high resolution photo). A similar mistake may happen with the low resolution photos also.
The equation 2H+L = 128 can be rearranged into L = -2H+128 when solving for L.
