Cassandra went trick-or-treating on Tuesday with her little brother. Every house they visited they each got two pieces of candy. When they returned home after 2 hours, their mother had extra candy and gave Cassandra 10 pieces and her brother received 5 pieces. Write an equation that represent y, Cassandra's total amount of candy she received that evening after visiting x number of houses

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20 November, 16:27

Cassandra went trick-or-treating on Tuesday with her little brother. Every house they visited they each got two pieces of candy. When they returned home after 2 hours, their mother had extra candy and gave Cassandra 10 pieces and her brother received 5 pieces. Write an equation that represent y, Cassandra's total amount of candy she received that evening after visiting x number of houses

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Bernard Chaney · Answer 1

number you get from houses=number of houses times get per hours=x times 2=2x

number total=got from house+got from mom

the number that brother received is irrelevant to this quesiton

got from mom=10

got from house=2x

total=y

y=2x+10 is the answer