Question

levon scored 38 points in the first half of the basketball game, and he scored p points in the second half of the game. write an expression to determine the number of points he scored in all. then, find the number of points he scored in all if he scored 20 points in the second half of the game.

Answer 1

By the given information you can raise the following equation, and since levon scored 38 points in the first half of the basketball game, then

$\begin{gathered} TP=38+n \\ \text{Where} \\ TP\colon\text{ the number of points that he scored in total.} \\ n\colon\text{ the number of points that he scored in the second half of the game} \end{gathered}$

So, if n=20

$\begin{gathered} TP=38+n \\ TP=38+20 \\ TP=58 \end{gathered}$

Therefore, if Levon scored 20 points in the second half of the game, in all he scored 58 points.