Some of the students at Georgia Middle School like to walk to and from school. They always walk unless it rains. Let d be the distance in miles from a students home to the school. Write two different expressions that represent how far a student travels by walking in a two week period if there is one rainy day each week
Expression 1:
The distance traveled by a student if there is one rainy day each week can be represented as:
2 * (6d), where 6 represents the number of school days in a week and 2 represents the number of weeks in a two-week period.
Expression 2:
The distance traveled by a student if there is one rainy day each week can also be represented as:
14d - 2d, where 14 represents the total number of days in a two-week period and 2d represents the distance traveled on the two rainy days.