You and your friend are selling magazine subscriptions for a fundraiser. After w weeks, you have sold (3w+4) subscriptions and your friend has sold (5w+1) subscriptions.

Question

a. Write an expression in simplest form that represents the difference between the number of subscriptions your friend has sold and the number you have sold.

An expression is
.

b. After 5 weeks, your friend has sold
more subscriptions than you.

what would that be

Answer 1

(a) "difference" means you subtract, so do it
(b) now substitute w=5 to get the actual number.