SOLUTION: Hello, I am a parent of a fifth grader and for the life of me I cannot figure out her problem. Wendy brough the lemonade and iced tea for the school picnic. Since more people li

Question 796929: Hello, I am a parent of a fifth grader and for the life of me I cannot figure out her problem.
Wendy brough the lemonade and iced tea for the school picnic. Since more people like lemonade than iced tea, she brought 2 gallons of lemonade for every 10 people. She also brought 5 gallons of iced tea for people who don't like lemonade.
Write an algebrai expression to show the total number of gallows Wendy would need to bring. Let n represent the number of groups of ten people.

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Wendy brought the lemonade and iced tea for the school picnic.
Since more people like lemonade than iced tea, she brought 2 gallons of lemonade for every 10 people.
She also brought 5 gallons of iced tea for people who don't like lemonade.
Write an algebraic expression to show the total number of gallows Wendy would need to bring.
Let n represent the number of groups of ten people.
:
total = 2 gal per n groups of 10 + 5 gal of tea
f(n) = 2n + 5
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