Wyatt receives a plant that is 7 cm tall. It grows another 2 cm each month. Harper receives a seed that is 0 cm tall and grows 3 cm each month.

Question

Write an equation that can be used to find the height of the plant after any number of months since Wyatt received it.

Answer 1

To find the height of Wyatt's plant after any number of months, we can define the following variables:

• Let \( h \) represent the height of the plant in centimeters after \( m \) months.
• \( 7 \) cm is the initial height of Wyatt's plant.
• The plant grows \( 2 \) cm each month.

Based on this information, we can create the following equation to represent the height of Wyatt's plant after \( m \) months:

\[ h = 7 + 2m \]

Here, \( 7 \) is the initial height, and \( 2m \) represents the total growth over \( m \) months.