you got 8 hours of sleep on monday night and 7 hours of sleep on tuesday night on wednesday you only got 4 hours of sleep because you were up late working on an english paper on thursday and friday you got 9 hours of sleep each night to make up for wednesday. use a verbal model to find how many hours of sleep you got during the week
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so would it be something like 8+7+4+9+9=x
I think you need to define x by saying let x = total number of hours of sleep in five days.
Then I would make a table showing
Monday 8
Tuesday 7
Wednesday etc
Thursday etc
Friday etc
Then show x = 8 + 7 + 4 etc. etc. = and add them up to give a total after the = sign.
You got 37 hours of sleep.
To find out the total number of hours of sleep you got during the week, we'll use a verbal model. Let's break it down day by day:
Monday: You got 8 hours of sleep.
Tuesday: You got 7 hours of sleep.
Wednesday: You only got 4 hours of sleep.
Thursday: You got 9 hours of sleep.
Friday: You got 9 hours of sleep.
To calculate the total, we add up the hours of sleep from each day:
8 + 7 + 4 + 9 + 9 = 37
Therefore, you got a total of 37 hours of sleep during the week.