SOLUTION: so the problem says each person in the united states produces about 3.5 pounds of trash a day. then write an expression to describe the pounds of trash per day by a family with

Question 642520: so the problem says each person in the united states produces about 3.5 pounds of trash a day.
then
write an expression to describe the pounds of trash per day by a family with m members.
then
use the expression you wrote to predict the amount of trash produced by a family of four each day.
so will you help me solve this problem please.
Answer by Century(7) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

Each person produces 3.5 pounds of trash a day, so 2 people would produce 7 lbs (or 3.5lbs times 2), 3 people would produce 10.5 lbs (or 3.5 times 3) and so on.
Realizing this pattern gives us an expression for the number of pounds of trash a family with m members would produce a day which is 3.5m
Using this expression we can determine how many pounds of trash a family of 4 would produce which is
Therefore a family of four will produce 14 pounds of trash each day.
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