Question

Roberto had $88, which is eleven times as much money as Bianca had. How much money did Bianca have? Select the correct solution method below, representing Bianca's money with x.

Answer 1

Bianca had $8.

Explanation:

Let x represent the money Bianca had.

We have been given that Roberto had eleven times as much money as Bianca had. The 11 times of x would by 11x.

Since Roberto had $88, so we can represent this information in an equation as:

`11x=88`

Now we will divide both sides of our equation by 11 to solve for b.

`(11x)/(11)=(88)/(11)`

`x=8`

Therefore, Bianca had $8.

Answer 2

We need to solve for the total amount of money that Bianca has. But we need to consider that the total amount that Roberto has is 11 times as much money as Bianca had.
Roberto's total money is $88.
We assigned "x" variable to represent the amount that Bianca has.
Such as we can right the phrase "11 times as Bianca has" into "11X".

We have the complete expression as 88 = 11X and solving for X value, we need to divide both sides by 11.
88 / 11 = 11x / 11
8 = x

The total amount that Bianca has is $8.