How do I go about solving this problem?

Cindy has 2 boxes of pencils. Patrice has 5 boxes of pencils. Each box has the same number of pencils in it. Write an expression for the total number of pencils the girls have altogether. Then simplify it to create an equivalent expression.

well there are two answers for that.

1: you need 120 ones then that will equal up to 120.

2: you could also do one 100 and 2 tens.

those are the answers that i have thought of.

step-by-step explanation:

points a and b are equidistant from the desired line, so the line you find by using them will go through point r.

using points other than a and b will give the desired line only if they are equidistant from r. if they are randomly located, the perpendicular line you create will not necessarily go through point r, hence will not be a solution to the problem.

is there more to this question?