Question

Candice weighs her backpack before and after putting some T-shirts inside. The function y = 5 x + 40 represents the weight of the backpack and its contents, where y is the final weight, in ounces, and x is the number of T-shirts added. How much does each T-shirt weigh, in ounces?

Answer 1

5 ounces

Explanation:

The weight of each T-shirt can be determined from the coefficient of the 'x' term in the function:

`\boxed{\boxed{\sf y = 5x + 40}}`

In this equation:

• y represents the final weight of the backpack and its contents (in ounces).
• x represents the number of T-shirts added.

The coefficient of 'x' in this equation, which is 5, represents the additional weight for each T-shirt.

Therefore, each T-shirt weighs 5 ounces.