Question: For the competition, each band member needs $12 for food. To get to the competition, the school rents 3 buses that cost $580 each. Write and evaluate an expression for the three costs.

Question

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Answer: (75/12) + (3/580) =
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Key: A school band has 75 members. The band enters a band competition at the rival school.

Answer 1

What three costs?

Why did you divide 75 by 12? Why did you divide 3 by 580?

Answer 2

OH whoops. I got 740 for the buses, Im now confused haha.

Answer 3

How did you get 740.

Please go back and study the problem I did for you.

Answer 4

For 740 don't you add the 580 three times? Since each bus cost 580?

Answer 5

Yes. You can add 580 three times -- or you can multiply 580 times 3. Either way the answer is not 740.

Answer 6

yeah