Question: For the competition, each band member needs $12 for food. To get to the competition, the school rents 3 buses that cost $580 each. Write and evaluate an expression for the three costs.
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Answer: (75/12) + (3/580) =
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Key: A school band has 75 members. The band enters a band competition at the rival school.
What three costs?
Why did you divide 75 by 12? Why did you divide 3 by 580?
OH whoops. I got 740 for the buses, Im now confused haha.
How did you get 740.
Please go back and study the problem I did for you.
For 740 don't you add the 580 three times? Since each bus cost 580?
Yes. You can add 580 three times -- or you can multiply 580 times 3. Either way the answer is not 740.
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To calculate the total cost for the three buses, we need to determine the cost per bus and then multiply it by the number of buses.
The cost per bus is given as $580, and we have three buses. So, to find the total cost for the three buses, we multiply $580 by 3:
$580 * 3 = $1740
Now, we need to calculate the cost per band member for food. It is stated that each band member needs $12 for food. We can multiply this by the number of band members to find the total cost for food:
$12 * 75 = $900
To find the overall cost, we need to sum up the cost of the buses and the cost of food:
$1740 + $900 = $2640
Therefore, the expression for the three costs is $2640.