Question

Sabra joins a cooking club for $8.50 and pays $6.25 each month. She also joins a movie club for $12 and pays $3.75 each month. Write an expression that represents the total amount of money Sabra spends on both clubs after m months. Then enter the simplified expression in the boxes.

Answer 1

Answer: The simplified express is 10m + 20.5 where m represents the total number of months.

To start we can write the following two expressions for her expenses.
8.5 + 62.5m   and     12 + 3.75m

Then, adding the two expressions together will give us a combined expression of:  10m + 20.5