Question

Michael was picking apples and placing them in boxes in a cart. The number of apples that fit in a box is 5 more than the number boxes in a cart. If b represents the number of boxes in each cart, which expression can be used to represent the number of apples Michael picked in 3 carts?

Answer 1

a. 3b^5
b. 3b(b + 5)
c. 3(b + 5)
d. 3b + 5

Answer 2

Michael was picking apples and placing them in boxes in a cart. The number of apples that fit in a box is 5 more than the number boxes in a cart. If b represents the number of boxes in each cart, which expression can be used to represent the number of apples Michael picked in 3 carts?

# of boxes in a cart = b
# of apples that fit in a box = 5 + b

3 carts have
3 * b * ( 5 + b ) apples