Expression 1:
The distance traveled by a student if there is one rainy day each week can be represented as:
2 * (6d), where 6 represents the number of school days in a week and 2 represents the number of weeks in a two-week period.
Expression 2:
The distance traveled by a student if there is one rainy day each week can also be represented as:
14d - 2d, where 14 represents the total number of days in a two-week period and 2d represents the distance traveled on the two rainy days.
Some of the students at Georgia Middle School like to walk to and from school. They always walk unless it rains. Let d be the distance in miles from a students home to the school. Write two different expressions that represent how far a student travels by walking in a two week period if there is one rainy day each week
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