WILL MARENAS BRAINLIEST Half of Maria's boxes were destroyed in a fire. She bought seven more boxes.
Write an expression to show how many boxes she started with, b.

Step-by-step explanation:

b= number of boxes she started with

We know that half of her boxes were destroyed in a fire, so we can represent that as , because she'll now have 1/2 of her boxes.

She then buys seven more, so we can add 7 to the equation, .

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