Question

The manger of a summer camp has 14 baseballs and 23 tennis balls.The manger buys some boxes of baseballs with 12 baseballs to a box and equal number boxes of tennis balls with 16 tennis balls to a box.Write an expression to represent the total number of balls.

Answer 1

12x+16y+37

Explanation:

14+23=37, and because we don't know how many boxes are bought, the variables mean that it is undetermined. You can plug any number in, nd it will work.