Question

can you please help me this is just HW not a test.

Answer 1

In this problem, we want to write an expression for the total cost of buying the items for all the players.

The items of each player are:

• a t-shirt that costs $12,

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• stocks that cost $4,

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• a hat that costs $x.

The cost of all the items for one player is just the sum of the prices:

$12+4+x$

Now, the cost for all the team is the last expression times the number of players:

$16\cdot(12+4+x)$

To simplify the last expression, we apply the distributive property for the multiplication:

$16\cdot(12+4+x)=16\cdot(16+x)=16\cdot16+16\cdot x=256+16x$

Answers

• Expression: , 16, (12 +, 4 + x,)

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• Simplified expression: ,256 + 16x