does the answer help you.
30+x=42 I think because it's has to equal 42 and he already has 30
The total cost for video rental, f(n), is the sum of the membership fee and the cost of renting video game. The latter is the product of cost per video game times n video games. The correct equation used to represent the total cost is,
f(n) = 20 + 2n
Since the membership is increased by 15, the new equation is,
f(n) = 35 + 2n
The distributive property....ur basically multiplying the number outside of the parenthesis by everything in the parenthesis....to get rid of the parenthesis.
9(2 + 5m) = (9 * 2) + (9 * 5m) = 18 + 45m <==