The petersons are building their newspaper and their magazines for recycling. Every magazine they add to the bundle weighs 8 ounces. Define a unit for the weight of the bundle. 1. The petersons have five ESPN magazines to recycle. How much will the bundle weigh?
2. How much will the bundle weigh if they recycle fourteen magazines? Enter a variable for the number of magazines in the bundle and use this variable to write an expression for the weight of the bundle.
1. The weight of the bundle would be 5 x 8 ounces = 40 ounces.
2. Let's use "m" as the variable for the number of magazines in the bundle. Then the expression for the weight of the bundle would be m x 8 ounces. If they recycle fourteen magazines, the weight of the bundle would be 14 x 8 ounces = 112 ounces.