Question

Sammy reads the same number of pages from his book each night. The expression 228-12x shows how many pages he has left to read on any given night.
What does the constant in the expression represent?

The total number of pages sammy has read so far.

The total number of pages in sammys book.

The number of pages sammy reads each night.

The total number of nights sammy has been reading.

Answer 1

@campbell_st

Answer 2

well looking at things the constant 228 is how many pages are in the book

Answer 3

so b?

Answer 4

12 represents how many pages he reads each night

x is how many nights he has read for

Answer 5

that would be my choice

Answer 6

ok next one?

Answer 7

@campbell_st

Answer 8

so if 12 is the number of pages per night and x is the number of nights...

12x is the total read so far