Ethan is making flat rectangular pizzas for his shop. The number of slices in each pizza is 2 more than the number of pizzas he has on the countertops. If p represents the number of pizzas on each countertop, which expression can be used to represent the number of slices on 4 countertops?

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anonymous · Answer

Can you show your answer choices? It may be easier to explain that way.

anonymous · Answer

4p2

 4(p + 2)

 4p + 2

 4p(p + 2)

anonymous · Answer

If there are 2 more slices per pizza than the number of pizzas on the counter top, we can translate this to p + 2. We also know that there are 4 counter tops filled with pizza, so we can translate this to 4p. If you put the two parts together, we can conclude that 4p(p + 2) correctly translates the word problem