Answer:
It’ll take about 28 days for Sam to eat a total of 2,200 calories in oranges if he eats 1 orange per day.
Explanation:
We can use the equation, 80x = 2200, where x represents the amount of oranges he will eat.
80x = 2200
1. You can use inverse operations in order to find x, or the amount of oranges. A number next to a variable, means multiplication, and the opposite of multiplication is division. So, we’ll divide by 80 on both sides.
80x/80 = 2200/80
2. Cancel out both 80s on the left but leave the x
x = 27.5 or 28 when rounded to the nearest tenth.
If he plans to eat 1 orange per day it’s obviously not possible for him to eat just half or 0.5 of an orange, so you have to round to the nearest whole number.
This means, he’ll have to eat about 28 oranges in order to have eaten 2,200 calories in oranges. So, to answer the question, if he eats 1 orange each day, it will take 28 days for him to eat a total of 2,200 calories.