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Sage is making roasted potatoes for a benefit dinner. The committee gives her money to buy 10 bags of potatoes. Write an equation to help Sage determine how many servings of potatoes she can prepare.

Let's let
n = number of servings

p = grams of potatoes per serving

c = grams of potatoes in each bag

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Sage is making roasted potatoes for a benefit dinner. The committee gives her money-example-1
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Sage is making roasted potatoes for a benefit dinner. The committee gives her money to buy 10 bags of potatoes. Write an equation to help Sage determine how many servings of potatoes she can prepare.
Let's let
n = number of servings

p = grams of potatoes per serving

c = grams of potatoes in each bag

As we can see we should let n = the number of servings be first.

Then we use ten and put it with the grams of potatoes per servings.

So


n = (10c)/(p)

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