Question

Fiona is serving iced tea and lemonade at a picnic. She has only 44 cups in which to serve the drinks. If x represents the number of glasses of iced tea and y represents the number of glasses of lemonade, which equation represents the number of glasses of iced tea she can serve?

Answer 1

x = 44/2 (read: 44 over/divided by 2; since there are two types of drinks)
Fiona can serve 22 glasses of iced tea basically.

Answer 2

`x=44-y`

Explanation:

Let x represents the number of glasses of iced tea and y represents the number of glasses of lemonade.

We have been given that Fiona is serving iced tea and lemonade at a picnic. She has only 44 cups in which to serve the drinks. We can represent this information in an equation as:

`x+y=44`

Since x represents the number of glasses of iced tea, so we will solve for x by subtracting y from both sides of our equation.

`x+y-y=44-y`

`x=44-y`

Therefore, the equation
`x=44-y` represents the number of glasses of iced tea Fiona can serve.