A company distributes free boxes of paperclips to all the workers in x offices. Each office has 8 more departments than the number of offices. The number of workers in each department is 4 less than the number of offices. Each worker is given 3 boxes of paperclips.

Which expression shows the number of workers in each department?

A. x

B. x + 8

C. x + 4

D. 3x(x + 8)(x + 4)

Question

A company distributes free boxes of paperclips to all the workers in x offices. Each office has 8 more departments than the number of offices. The number of workers in each department is 4 less than the number of offices. Each worker is given 3 boxes of paperclips.

Which expression shows the number of workers in each department?

A. x

B. x + 8

 C. x + 4

 D. 3x(x + 8)(x + 4)

anonymous · Answer

It is x

texaschic101 · Answer

@amistre64 ...can you take a peek at this please

texaschic101 · Answer

@dan815 ...help

texaschic101 · Answer

I keep wanting to say x - 4, but that isn't even a choice

amistre64 · Answer

A company distributes free boxes of paperclips to all the workers in x offices. 
         o = x

Each office has 8 more departments than the number of offices.
        d = o+8

The number of workers in each department is 4 less than the number of offices. 
      w = o - 4

texaschic101 · Answer

so wouldn't workers be x - 4 ?

amistre64 · Answer

thats what i read it as yes .... but its a poorly worded/constructed word problem to start with

texaschic101 · Answer

you did what I did and got d = x + 8 and w = x - 4.....but I didn't know where to go from there

anonymous · Answer

Just saying right now, D. 3x(x + 8)(x + 4) is incorrect.

anonymous · Answer

What was the answer lol?