Question

Marty shipped two packages to his sons that each included a pair of shoes and four new sweaters. Each pair of shoes weighed 1.5 lbs and each sweater weighed x pounds. If the total weight of both packages was 7 lbs, mark each statement as false or true. a. The situation can be represented by the equation 2(1.5x+4)=7. b. The weight of each sweater is 0.5 lbs

Answer 1

A. False B. True

Explanation:

We know how many shoes we have, so x is easily represented as 2. what we dont know is how much each sweater weighs, after dividing the extra 4 pounds (4/8(8 because the weight is totaled and in total there is 8 sweaters)). the final answer is 0.5, making each sweater weigh 0.5