Ashanti and Maria went to the store to buy snacks for their back to school party. They bought bags of chips, ptetzels, and nachos. They bought three times as many bags of pretzels as bags of chips, and two fewer bags of nachos than bags of pretzels. If x reprsents the number of bags of chips they bought, express, in terms of x, how many bags of snacks they bought in all.

Please if anyone could help me.
I really don't understand this question.

I got an equation thing of-
-3x-2n-
but i don't think its right.?

x-being the bags of chips
n-being the bags of nachos

^^ PLease HELP!^^

bags of chips = x

bags of pretzels = 3 times as many as chips so that is 3x

bags of nachos = 2 less than bags of pretzels. Since pretzels = 3x then two less than that is 3x -2.

add them together for total.
x + 3x + (3x -2) = total bags.

Thank you.=)

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To express the total number of bags in terms of x, you need to add up the number of bags of chips, pretzels, and nachos:

Number of bags of chips = x
Number of bags of pretzels = 3x (since they bought three times as many bags of pretzels as bags of chips)
Number of bags of nachos = 3x - 2 (since they bought two fewer bags of nachos than bags of pretzels)

To find the total number of bags, you add these quantities together:

Total number of bags = Number of bags of chips + Number of bags of pretzels + Number of bags of nachos
Total number of bags = x + 3x + (3x - 2)

Simplifying the expression:
Total number of bags = x + 3x + 3x - 2
Total number of bags = 7x - 2

So, in terms of x, the expression for the total number of bags of snacks they bought is 7x - 2.

To find the total number of bags of snacks Ashanti and Maria bought, you need to add up the number of bags of chips, pretzels, and nachos.

Let's assign variables to represent the number of bags of each snack:
- x will represent the number of bags of chips
- 3x will represent the number of bags of pretzels (since they bought three times as many bags of pretzels as bags of chips)
- 3x - 2 will represent the number of bags of nachos (since they bought two fewer bags of nachos than bags of pretzels)

To find the total number of bags of snacks, you add these three quantities together:

Total = x + 3x + (3x - 2)

Simplifying the equation, you get:

Total = x + 3x + 3x - 2

Combining like terms, you have:

Total = 7x - 2

Therefore, the expression in terms of x for the total number of bags of snacks they bought is 7x - 2.