Question

Students at a bake sell bags of cookies for $2.25 each and bags of miniature muffins for $1.50 each. While selling their baked goods, the students also received a $25 donation. The amount of money the students make from selling c bags of cookies and m bags of muffins can be modeled by the expression 2.25 + 1.5 + 25. Interpret the expression

Answer 1

2.25c + 1.5m + 25....this is the amount of money the students make.....where 25 is the donation, and the 2.25c...thats what they get from selling bags of cookies for 2.25 with c being the number of bags sold, and the 1.5m is what they get from selling bags of muffins with m standing for the number of bags sold