Henry and Holly catch crawfish which they sell to a local Cajun restaurant. The restaurant pays them $3.80 a pound for live crawfish that are large enough. 5% of the crawfish die before they can deliver them to the restaurant and 7% of the live crawfish are too small.

Identify an expression which represents how much money they make per pound of crawfish they catch.

Solution:

Let "x" be the number of craw fish they catch

Given that,

The restaurant pays them $3.80 a pound for live crawfish that are large enough

5% of the crawfish die before they can deliver them to the restaurant

7% of the live crawfish are too small.

Therefore, expression which represents how much money they make per pound of crawfish they catch is given as:

Thus the expression is found