Question

Mrs. Marcus combines her atlases and dictionaries and then divides them among 10 different tables. If a represents the number of atlases and dd represents the number of dictionaries Mrs. Marcus has, write an expression to show how many books would be on each table.

Answer 1

(a+dd)/10

Explanation:

let be a the amount of atlases and dd the amount of dictionaries.

Mrs. Marcus combines her atlases and dictionaries

then, total amount of books=a+dd

then divides them among 10 different tables

total books/10= (a+dd)/10