Question

Bags of clementines have 12 each. For the party, Sal, Trisha, and Joe each brought bags of clementines. Altogether, there were 180 clementines. Sal brought 4 bags and Joe brought 6. Write the equation to determine how many bags Trisha brought, t .

___(t+__) =__

Answer 1

The equation to determine the number of bags Trisha brought to the party is 12(t + 10) = 180, where t is the number of bags Trisha brought.

Step-by-step explanation:

To find out how many bags Trisha brought to the party, let's denote the number of bags Trisha brought as t. Since each bag contains 12 clementines, Sal brought 4 bags and Joe brought 6 bags, the total bags brought by Sal and Joe is 4 + 6 = 10 bags. Because the total is 180 clementines, the equation to determine how many bags Trisha brought is:

12(t + 10) = 180.

Here, we multiply the total number of bags (t for Trisha plus the 10 bags already accounted for by Sal and Joe) by 12, the number of clementines per bag, to match the total count of clementines brought to the party, which is 180.