Question

Serena is trying to become more environmentally conscious by making her own cleaning products. She researches different cleaners and decides to make furniture polish using lemon juice and olive oil. She wants to make 48 ounces of the mixture.

Write an equation in standard form (ax+by=c) that relates the amount of lemon juice, x, and olive oil, y, to the total amount of mixture Serena wants to make.

Answer 1

Answer: 24x+24y=48

Explanation:

ok so you want to make a equation for this problem

im going to take you in step by. ill show you the problem in short glimpse.

using lemon juice and olive oil.

ill explain this is a normal equation for a line y=mx+b but this equation is ax+by=c this means there is 2 variables in so the answer is to fill in the letters they gave us so 48/2 is 24 per cup and the total is 48.

She wants to make 48 ounces of the mixture

with the little information that they gave to us the answer is 24x+24y=48