Question

edward washed several cars to earn money for a set of beats by dr.dre. After he paid $43 for supplies,he had $198 leftover to pay toward his new beats. write and solve an equation to find how much money edward earned washing cars

Answer 1

So here we have Edward, working to get some Beats by Dre!
The numbers they give us can definitely be used to figure out how much he had before spending $43 on cleaning supplies.

Since we know that AFTER spending $43 on cleaning supplies he has $198, we will ADD $43 to $198.

198
+ 43
= 241.

After doing the math, we find out that he had $241 to start out with.

Now; to make an equation!

leftover + supplies = total.

The amount he had after spending money on supplies plus the amount he had already spent on supplies equals the total amount he made from washing cars — in this case, $241.



Let’s take another similar scenario!

Edward is washing cars and, after spending $75 on supplies, has $175 left over to buy his Beats.

We’ll go back to that equation we used earlier (leftover + supplies = total).

leftover ($175) + supplies ($75) = total ($250).

See? Using that equation and the numbers I gave, we calculated how much money he made overall.