SOLUTION: Victoria's family went to the strawberry patch to pick strawberries. Victoria picked 3 baskets but then ate 10 strawberries. Her brother picked one basket but then ate 5 strawberri

Question 363880: Victoria's family went to the strawberry patch to pick strawberries. Victoria picked 3 baskets but then ate 10 strawberries. Her brother picked one basket but then ate 5 strawberries. Her parents together picked 4 baskets and ate 13 strawberries. Write an expression to show how many strawberries they have all together using b for baskets.
Answer by unlockmath(1688) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Hello,
We can write it out in an expanded form as:
(3b-10)+(b-5)+(4b-13)
Combine like terms to get:
8b-28
RJ
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