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Jesse's weekly allowance is $8.00. His friend Kait's weekly allowance is $10. Jesse spends $3 dollars a week and Kait spends $4 a week. a) Write TWO expression showing how much money each person has left at the end of the week. Use parentheses. b) Jesse and Kait decide that they want to put their money together to buy a video game. Write an expression that shows how much they can both save together each week. Explain. c) The video game Jesse and Kait want to buy is $55. Write an expression to show how many weeks it will take them to save enough to buy the video game. Use parentheses and brackets in your expression and evaluate the expression.
What is a) Jesse has ($8-$3) left. Kait has ($10-$4) left.
b) ($8-$3) + ($10-$4): Add the amount of money Jesse can save and the amount of money Kait can save.
c) 55 /[(8-3) + (10-4)]= 55 / [5+6]= 55 /11= 5
It will take them five weeks to save their money for the video game.