Question

Word Processing Your computer’s word-processing program fits about 250 words on one page. Let p represent the number of pages in a report. Write a variable expression for the approximate number of words in the report.

Short answer

The variable expression is $250\times p$.

Step-by-step solution

Step-1 – Concept of integers

Integers include the positive and negative whole numbers including zero. An integer cannot be a decimal or fractional part with it.

The set of integers is denoted by the numbers $...,-4,-3,-2,-1,0,1,2,3,4,...$

Step-2 – Given information

Computer’s word processing program fits about 250 words on one page.

Let $p$ represent the number of pages in a report.

Step-3 – Write the variable expression

Since there are about 250 words in each page of the document and there are p pages in the document.

So, the total number of words in the word document can be found by multiplying the number of pages by the count of words in each page. That is,

$\begin{array}{c}\text{Numberofwordsinreport}=250\times p\\ =250p\end{array}$

Thus, the variable expression for the approximate number of words in the report is $250p$.