You are working on decorating your home for the holidays. You enjoy hanging lights and so far have invested in $75 worth of lights. You notice a sale that you can get strands of lights for $5 a box this week. Write an expression that describes your total investment (money spent) in lights, depending on how many boxes (b) you buy.

Mrs. avila is buying a wallpaper border to go on all of her kitchen walls. she wants to buy 5 extra feet of wallpaper border than she needs to be sure she has enough. she buys 55.5 feet of the border. the store owner selling the border uses the width of mrs. avila's kitchen to determine that the length of her kitchen must be 14.5 feet.