The bakery manager at the grocery store decides to have a 18% off sale on all bread. You decide to purchase 5 loaves of bread. Let b be the original price of a loaf of bread. Expand the expression 5(b-0.18b). What do the terms of the expansion represent? What do the terms of the expansion represent
The expression 5(b-0.18b) represents the expanded version of the expression for the total cost of purchasing 5 loaves of bread at the original price with an 18% discount.
The terms of the expansion can be described as follows:
- The term 5b represents the cost of purchasing 5 loaves of bread at the original price per loaf.
- The term -0.18b represents the discount applied to each loaf of bread (18% off).
- Therefore, the expanded expression 5(b-0.18b) represents the total cost of purchasing 5 loaves of bread after the 18% discount is applied.