A furniture company plans to have 25 employees at its corporate headquarters and 25 employees at eac

A furniture company plans to have 25 employees at its corporate headquarters and 25 employees at each store it opens. Let s represent the number of stores and m represent the total number of employees.

There is only one corporate headquarters. So we have the number of employees (m) as:
m = Store Employees + Corporate Employees
Each store has 25 employees. Total store employees equal 25 per store times the number of stores (s).
m = 25s + 25