Question

20 POINTS!! NEED HELP FOR A TEST!

A food pantry is making packages. Each package weighs 64 pounds.

Here are two situations. For each situation, write an equation to represent the situation.

A. Each package contains 4 boxes. Each box contains 7-pound bag of beans and a bag of rice. The bags of rice are all identical.

B. Each package contains 4 identical bags of rice and a 7-pound bag of beans.

Answer 1

64 = 4x + 7 Each bag of rice weighs 14.25 pounds.

Explanation:

Each package is 64 pounds, which give us one side of the equal sign. The other side is ehre we make the 64 pounds. There is one 7 pound bag of beans, and four equal bags of rice. To find the pounds per bag of rice, we do 64-7 to get 57, then 57/4 to get 14.25

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