Question

Ver en español At his school's spring carnival, Darrell is in charge of the balloon-launcher contest. In this contest, each team builds a catapult to launch water balloons at a target. Darrell gives a bucket of 15 water balloons to each team in the contest. In all, he gives out 90 water balloons. Which equation can you use to find the number of teams (t) in the contest?

a) 15t = 90
b) t + 15 = 90
c) 90/t = 15
d) 15/t = 90

Answer 1

The correct equation to use to find the number of teams t in the contest is 15t = 90, where t is the number of teams.

Step-by-step explanation:

To find the number of teams (t) Darrell is expecting in the balloon-launcher contest, we need an equation that relates the total number of water balloons given out to the number of balloons each team receives. Since each team gets a bucket of 15 water balloons and the total number given out is 90, we can express this situation with the equation 15t = 90, where t represents the number of teams.