Question

Jayla plays on the Strikers soccer team. The team worked on 5 new drills at yesterday's

practice, spending the same amount of time on each drill. Jayla was 15 minutes late and only
practiced for 40 minutes.
) Which equation can you use to find how long, x, the team spent on each drill?

Answer 1

Let's use "d" to represent the time the team spent on each drill.

Since the team spent the same amount of time on each drill, and they worked on 5 drills, the total time spent at practice before Jayla arrived can be represented as:

5d

We know that Jayla was 15 minutes late, so when she arrived, the team had already been practicing for 15 minutes. Therefore, the total time she spent practicing is:

40 minutes = 5d - 15

Now we can solve for "d":

5d - 15 = 40

5d = 55

d = 11

So the team spent 11 minutes on each drill.

The equation we used is:

5d - 15 = 40