Question

Kirby is at the candy store. The piece of candy Kirby wants costs $0.34. Kirby has $17 to spend. Which equation would solve how many pieces of candy (p) Kirby can buy?​

Answer 1

50.

17/ 0.34= 50.

If the candy cost $0.34 and he has $17, he can buy 50 pieces according to my calculator.

Answer 2

50 pieces.

Explanation:

How can we solve this?

First, we must write down what we know.

1 piece of candy is equal to $0.34.

Kirby has 17 dollars to spend and cannot go over the limit.

The question is asking to create an equation that would figure out how many pieces of candy Kirby can buy without going over the limit.

p represents the amount of candy, which is unknown.

Now, we must combine what we know.

$17 (total) = $0.34p (price of candy)

Step 2:

To check our equation to make sure it is possible to solve, we divide 0.34 on both sides.

`(17)/(0.34) =(0.34p)/(0.34)`

All that's left on the right side is p and the left side needs to be divided.

`50=p`

or,

`p=50`

It doesn't really matter which way it's written.

Step 3:

Now, we need to check our answer. In order to do that, we must multiply our answer, 50, by 0.34.

`50*0.34`

`=17`

Since 17 is the total amount of money Kirby can spend, we know that our answer is correct since we multiplied the amount of candy by the price to get the total amount of money.

So, the answer is Kirby can get 50 pieces of candy.