Sarah is making a balloon arc, with pink and yellow balloons, for decorating her brother’s birthday party. For the balloon arc, she needs 4 more pink balloons than twice the yellow balloons. If she has x yellow balloons, then how many pink balloons are needed to finish making the balloon arc? Write an expression she would use to determine the total amount of balloons needed for the arc.

Answer 1

If Sarah has x yellow balloons, then she needs 2x+4 pink balloons to finish the balloon arc.