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 departments in each office. Each worker is given 3 boxes of paperclips.

Which expression shows the number of workers in each department?

x + 3

x + 5

(x + 3)(x + 5)

x(x + 3)(x + 5)

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 departments in each office. Each worker is given 3 boxes of paperclips.

Which expression shows the number of workers in each department?

x + 3

 x + 5

 (x + 3)(x + 5)

 x(x + 3)(x + 5)

anonymous · Answer

It's not B or D, I got those two wrong.

anonymous · Answer

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