Question

Ingrid has 14.4 meters of string to hang 5 pennants and a banner at her school. She needs 0.65 meter of string for the banner and the same length string for each pennant. What length of string will be used to hang each pennant? Write and solve a two-step equation. Let s represent the length of string used to hang each pennant.

Answer 1

5s + 0.65 = 14.4

- 0.65 - 0.65

______________

5s = 13.75

___. ___

5 5

s = 2.75 meters of string for each pennant

Step-by-step explanation:

s represents the length of string required for each pennant.

We know that Ingrid is using a total of 14.4 meters of string to hang a banner and 5 pennants.

We also know that out of that 14.4 meters, 0.65 meters is used to hang the banner. The rest of the string left is equally distributed among the 5 pennants.

So, therefore, we have a constant of 0.65 and a coefficient of 5 with variable, s.

Next, we solve this by first isolating the constant by subtracting 0.65 on both sides.

Then. we isolate the variable by dividing 5 into both sides.

So, s = 2.75 meters of string for each pennant