Question

Rhiannon went to the store and bought two sweatshirts. She spent $72. What was the price of each sweatshirt?

Would you write an inequality or an equation?

Answer 1

72 divide by 2 is 36 so it’s a equation. 2 sweatshirts x 36 dollars each is $72.

Answer 2

To solve this problem, we can use the equation:

2x = 72

Where x represents the price of one sweatshirt. We multiply by 2 because Rhiannon bought two sweatshirts.

Simplifying the equation we get:

x = 36

Therefore, each sweatshirt costs $36.

We used an equation to solve this problem.