You buy x pairs of shoes that each cost $24.95 the same number of socks that each cost $4.75 and a pair of pants that costs $29.99 write an expression in simplest form that represents the total amount of money spent.

Question

Would you add them all together?

Answer 1

sort of.

Multiply each item's price by the quantity of that item. That gives the amount spent for that item.

Then add up the products to get the total amount spent.

24.95x + 4.75x + 29.99*1
That can be simplified into
29.70x + 29.99

Answer 2

59.69