Question

Chin canned a number of quart jars and a number of pint jars of tomatoes from his garden. A pint is 16 ounces and a quart is 32 ounces. The number of pints he canned is represented by p, and the number of quarts he canned is represented by q. Which equation models the scenario if Chin canned a total of 1,280 ounces?

Answer 1

We have two variables p and q that need to be found.

p = # of pints

q= # of quarts

16p+32q=1280

- you do not jump into looking for the answer to each variable as it is asking for an equation not to find what p and q is