Jim started a business selling mattresses. He sold 12 standard mattresses and 7 deluxe mattresses last week. Which expression below represents how many dollars he took in last week if the standard mattress costs 100 dollars and the deluxe costs 160 dollars?

Explanation

To find the total price, multiply the number of standard mattresses by the price of a standard mattress, and the number of deluxe mattresses by the price of a deluxe mattress. There were 12 standards at 100 dollars each, so that's 12(100). There were seven deluxes at 160 dollars each, so that's 7(160). Altogether that's 12(100) + 7(160).

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