Question

Bess and Gina earn $45 per week for delivering flowers. Bess worked for x weeks and earned an additional total bonus of $20. Gina worked for y weeks. Which expression shows the total money, in dollars, that Bess and Gina earned for delivering flowers?

Answer 1

45x + 20 + 45y

Explanation:

Answer 2

First option:
`45x + 20 + 45y`

Explanation:

The missing options are:

`45x + 20 + 45y\\65x + 45y\\45x - 20 + 45y\\\\45x + 65y`

We know that "x" represents the number of weeks Bess worked and "y" the number of weeks Gina worked.

According to the data given in the exercise, Gina and Bess earn $45 per week for delivering flowers, this is:

`45x+45y`

Since earned an additional total bonus of $20, then the total money in in dollars that Bess and Gina earned for delivering flowers can be shown with the following expression:

`(45x+20)+45y=45x+20+45y`

Notice that this expression matches with the one shown in the first option.