Part 2: Now it’s time to make the guest list! Figure out how many guests you will have at your party, and how much it will cost to feed everybody.

Question

anonymous · Answer

You have four grandparents coming. For the adults, you have your parents, your best friend’s parents, your aunt and uncle, and your three next door neighbors that have known you forever. From school you have 18 guys coming and 14 girls. Your little brother and sister (under the age of 11) are coming too and they each invited two friends. You get to eat free!  

Part a: Use the variables in the table to write and simplify an algebraic expression to represent the number of guests. 


Grandparents g 
Adults a 
Your friends f 
Kids under 11 k

anonymous · Answer

Four grandparents + (Your parents + your best friends' parents + aunt + uncles + three next door neighbors) + (18 guys + 14 girls) + (little brother and 2 friends + little sister and 2 friends)

4g + 9a + 32f + 6k