Question

Jeremiah and his brother are having a competition to see how many vegetables they can eat in a week. Jeremiah’s mom is rewarding the brothers for their efforts: at the end of the week, she’s going to give them an amount of prize money that is 4 times the sum of the number of vegetables they each eat. By the end of the week, Jeremiah had eaten 15 servings of vegetables. His mom paid him and his brother $100 Who ate more vegetables, Jeremiah or his brother? By how many?

Answer 1

Jeremiah ate more, by 5 servings more

Explanation:

$100 is 4 x number of vegetable servings

100/4 = 25 number of total servings

If Jeremiah ate 15 servings, his brother ate 25-15 =10

Servings Jeremiah 15, brother 10