Question

Carl is boarding a plane. He has 222 checked bags of equal weight and a backpack that weighs 4 \text{ kg}4 kg4, space, k, g. The total weight of Carl's baggage is 35 \text{ kg}35 kg35, space, k, g.

Write an equation to determine the weight, www, of each of Carl's checked bags.

Answer 1

The equation is 2w+4=35.

The weight of each checked bag is 15.5kg

Explanation:

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Answer 2

Let w = weight of each bag, kg

There are 222 bags and one backpack that weighs 4 kg.

The total weight of checked baggage is 35 kg, therefore
222w + 4 = 35
222w = 35 - 4 = 31
w = 31/222 = 0.1396 kg =139.6 g

Answer:
The equation to determine w is 222w + 4 = 35.