Question

Mrs. luster is growing a sunflower plant when Mrs. luster got the plant it was 8 inches tall over the next serval weeks Mrs. luster found that the plant was growing 8 inches per week write an expression to represent the situation? how tall would the sunflower be after 5 weeks

Answer 1

To represent the situation with an expression, we can use the following formula:

\[
\text{Height of the sunflower after } t \text{ weeks} = \text{Initial height} + (\text{Growth per week} \times t)
\]

In this scenario, the initial height of the sunflower is 8 inches, and it grows 8 inches per week. Therefore, the expression can be written as:

\[
\text{Height}(t) = 8 + 8t
\]

where \( t \) is the number of weeks.

To find the height of the sunflower after 5 weeks, we can substitute \( t = 5 \) into the expression:

\[
\text{Height}(5) = 8 + 8 \times 5
\]
\[
\text{Height}(5) = 8 + 40
\]
\[
\text{Height}(5) = 48 \text{ inches}
\]

So, after 5 weeks, the sunflower would be 48 inches tall.