Question

You are painting your dining room white and your living room blue. You spend $132 on 5 cans of paint. The white paint costs $24 per can, and the blue paint costs $28 per can. Use numbers and symbols to write an equation that represents how many cans of each color you bought?

Answer 1

To find out how many cans of each color paint were purchased, set up two equations: 24w + 28b = 132 to represent the total cost and w + b = 5 to represent the total number of cans. Solve these equations using substitution or elimination methods.

Step-by-step explanation:

To determine how many cans of white and blue paint you bought, you can set up an equation to represent the total cost of $132 for the 5 cans of paint. Let's define w as the number of white paint cans and b as the number of blue paint cans purchased.

Given that white paint costs $24 per can and blue paint costs $28 per can, you can represent this situation with the following equation:

24w + 28b = 132

We also know there are a total of 5 cans, so we have another equation:

w + b = 5

With these two equations, you can use substitution or elimination methods to solve for w and b, the number of white and blue paint cans, respectively.