Question

Flour costs $0.75 per pound and sugar costs $0.50 per pound. An order of flour and sugar weighs 16 pounds and costs $9. What equation could we write to represent that the number of pounds of flour and the number of pounds of sugar weighed a total of 16 pounds? Let f represent the number of pounds of flour and s represent the number of pounds of sugar.

Answer 1

The equation that represents the number of pounds of flour and sugar weighing a total of 16 pounds is f + s = 16.

Step-by-step explanation:

To represent that the number of pounds of flour and the number of pounds of sugar weighed a total of 16 pounds, we can write the equation:

=> f + s = 16 (where f represents the number of pounds of flour and s represents the number of pounds of sugar).