Question

Avery has a total of $12.50 in her piggy bank at home. Each week she takes out $1.25 to ride the city bus. Write an equation representing the balance, C, in the piggy bank, where w is the number of weeks.

Answer 1

C = 12.50 - (1.25W)

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Answer 2

The the number of weeks would be 10 weeks