Question

Carly is going shopping to buy cookies. She plans to buy 10 chocolate chip cookies c dollars each, 12 peanut butter cookies at p dollars each, and 8 oatmeal raisin cookies r dollars each. White an algebraic expression to represent the total cost in dollars of these cookies carly will buy.

Answer 1

Explanation:

Let c represent the cost of one chocolate chip cookie that she wants to buy.

Let p represent the cost of one peanut butter cookie that she wants to buy.

Let r represent the cost of one oatmeal raisin cookie that she wants to buy.

She plans to buy 10 chocolate chip cookies, 12 peanut butter cookies, and 8 oatmeal raisin cookies. Therefore, the algebraic expression used to represent the total cost in dollars of these cookies Carly will buy is

10c + 12p + 8r