Question

lola spends one-third of her allowance on movies. She spends $8 per week at the movies. Write and solve an equation to determine lola's weekly allowance.

Answer 1

If $8 is one third of her allowance, then 8 times three is her allowance. So it is $24. 8x3= a

Answer 2

$24.

Explanation:

Let x represent Lola's weekly allowance.

We have been given that Lola spends one-third of her allowance on movies. So one third of weekly allowance would be
`(1)/(3)x`.

We are also told that she spends $8 per week at the movies. We can represent our given information in an equation as:

`(1)/(3)x=8`

`3* (1)/(3)x=3* 8`

`x=24`

Therefore, Lola's weekly allowance is $24.