Question

Shawn bought 8 boxes of erasers. Each of the erasers is either pink or blue. Each box has x pink erasers and y blue erasers in it. The expression shown below represents the total number of erasers Shawn bought.

8(x + y)

Which expression also represents the total number of erasers Shawn bought?

Question 7 options:

a 8x + 8y


b 8x + y


c 8xy


d 8 + x + y

Answer 1

A

Explanation:

You need to distribute the 8 to everything in the equation. You need to keep the sign in the middle. So in the end you would get 8x+8y.