Kiyo bought a pizza for $12.75 and four medium drinks at paola’s pizza. define a variable and write an expression to represent the total amount of money he spent. then find the total cost if one drink costs $3

Y = total amount of money spent
x = cost of one drink

So our expression is:
4x + 12.75

4x stands for 4 drinks times x price of one drink
The 12.75 is a one time fee for the pizza, since Kiyo isn't buying multiple pizzas.

The problem also asks us to find the total price, so we write an equation:


We insert what x is which in this case is $3

Order of Operations tells us to multiply first:

Now add your values:

Therefore, Kiyo spent a total amount of 24.75 at Paola's pizza.

Let's check our problem just in case:


Since we now know what y is equal to, we can plug that into our original equation and check just to verify

We should subtract 12. on both sides of the equation because of inverse operations:


We are left with:


We divide:

Our result is:

Which checks out because each drink was in fact, $3 dollars as stated in the word problem. Hope that was thorough enough.