19. kara's backpacki contains 4 boxes of pencils. each box containsp pencils. kara's backpack also contains 6 pens. write three equivalent expressions for the total number of pencils and pens in kara's backpack.

Here are 3 equivalent expressions that would represent the total number of pencils and pens in Karen's backpack.

1. 4p + 6

2. p+ p + p + p + 6

3. 6 + 4(p)

Each of these has four groups of p +6 represented.

Best answer that i found on yahoo ok   set :   x= length of 2nd piece in cm  x- 3= length of 1st piece in cm  x-4= length of 3rd piece in cm  then since you know they all came from the 20 cm ribbon you add them together and set them equal to 20x+ x-3 +x-4 = 20  3x - 7= 20  3x= 27  x= 9  the shortest piece is the third piece which is x- 4  x-4  9-4 = 5  the length of the smallest piece is 5 cm.  the other lengths are  9 cm  6 cm