Answer:
substitute 8 into x =(8-2)2
(6)2=12
$5. You subtract the $7 from the $42 since that was the magazine then you divide that(35) by 7 since that is the amount of candy bars that were bought. That’ll give you the answer of $5 for each candy bar.

Example:
5w - five apples
8 - eight strawberries
5w + 8 = (five apples) + (eight strawberries) = 13 of what?
You can add only numbers of the same fruits.
When you are checking your answers, your formula should read out as 9(2.222) - 8 = 12, which is simply filing in the x value that you calculated (it comes out to 11.998 which is correct). You wrote it out as 9(2.22) - 8 = -6, which is why your checking process was incorrect