Question

A Dog Sled Driver Added More Gear To The Sled Doubling Its Weight This Felt Too Heavy So The Driver Removed 20 Pounds To Reach The Final Weight Of 180 Pounds Write And Solve An Equation To Find The Sleds Original Weight

Describe How You Could Find The Original Weight Of The Sled Using Only Arithmetic Compare This Method With The Method Shown In Example 2

Answer 1

let x be the orignal weight of the Dog Sledsince the Driver Added More Gear To The Sled Doubling Its Weight ( 2x)2x - 20 = 1802x = 180 + 202x = 200x = 200/2x = 100 is the the orignal weight of the Dog Sled