Question

Dawson practices soccer for 30 minutes each weekday. The expression 30x can be used to find the total number of minutes Dawson has practiced soccer. What does "x" represent in this expression?

Answer 1

X represents each weekday he practices.

Explanation:

The problem states that each weekday he practices soccer, and he practices for 30 minutes each day. This means that to find the total number of minutes you must know the total number of weekdays he worked. Because we don't know this number, however, we must represent it with a variable in order to make this an expression, and that variable is x.

Answer 2

I think it’s how many weekdays he’s practiced soccer so it’d be 30x x being the number of days!