Question

Alex went to Sam's club and Bar a Halloween costume and several bags of candy she has $30 to spend the costume cost her $12 and each bag of candy cost her $3. write the equation of the representation of this situation.

Answer 1

hello

let the number of bags of candy be represented by x

$30=12+3x$

so x represents the total number of bags of candy she bought

total amount she spent = 30

she bought costume = $12

and bought x bags of candy