On the first day of school, Mr. Vilani gave his third - grade students 5 new words to spell. On each day of school after that, he gave the students 3 new words to spell. In the first 20 days of school, how many new words had he given the students to spell?

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Penny

Mathematics

12 February, 18:09

On the first day of school, Mr. Vilani gave his third - grade students 5 new words to spell. On each day of school after that, he gave the students 3 new words to spell. In the first 20 days of school, how many new words had he given the students to spell?

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Rachael Hernandez · Answer 1

So, the best way to solve this problem is by creating a equation for which we can substitute any number of days. For this problem that equation would be W=5+3 (t-1)

W=number of words

T=time or number of days

-1 = This is here because we are already accounting for the first day of school so we need to have 1 less day than the number of days they have been in school.

So in 20 days the students had received

5+3 (19) or 62words.

Answer: 62 words