How do you put the sentence "5 thumb drives have 9 gigabytes more capacity than 1 compact disk." into a linear equation?

Well, we should first decide on our variables. Let's replace "thumb drives" with the letter "t", and "compact disk" with the letter "c".

Now, to understand the sentence. "5 thumb drives have 9 gigabytes more capacity than 1 compact disk." So, what does that mean? Well, if a compact disk has 10 gigabytes of capacity, then I suppose 5 thumb drives would have 19 gigabytes of capacity all together. So, we're just adding + 9.

Alright, so as a linear equation:

"5 thumb drives have 9 gigabytes more capacity than 1 compact disk"

5t = c + 9