At the grocery store, lindsay bought several pounds of strawberries. the strawberries cost $2.25 per pound. after she paid the cashier, she had $8.75 remaining. write an expression with one variable to represent the amount of money lindsay had before she bought the strawberries. then, use your expression to find how much money lindsay started with before buying 4 pounds of strawberries. explain your thinking.

the sum of the lengths of any two sides of a triangle is greater than the length of the third side. if you take the three sides of a triangle and add them in pairs, the sum is greater than (not equal to) the third side. if that is not true, then it is not possible to construct a triangle with the given side lengths.

step-by-step explanation:

x is the total time in minutes for the free response

you are given number of questions as 15 - m and time per item as 8 minutes

to find x multiply the two givens together:

x = 8 * (15-m) = 8(15-m)