Question

In the Founder's Day Parade in Happy, USA, many organizations participate by building floats. The Float Committee has issued a decree that each float can only have 261,600 flowers on it this year. The Happy Campers have already attached 13,625 flowers to their float. If the flowers come in containers which hold 109 flowers, which equation represents how many more containers they can use on their float?

A.
109x = 261,600 + 13,625
B.
-16x + 109 = 261,600
C.
-16x = 261,600 + 109
D.
109x + 13,625 = 261,600

Answer 1

D. 109x + 13625 = 261600

Explanation:

With x representing the number of containers of flowers we'll need, the equation will be:

109x (flowers from containers) + 13625 (how many flowers are already there) = 261600 (maximum number of flowers, or our goal)

Below is the solution to this problem, while this is not part of the real solution to the question being asked, I would like to add it in case you wanted to know:

In this problem, we need to find how many containers of flowers we need to have to have the maximum amount of flowers on the float. There are already 13625 flowers on the float, so we'll have to subtract this from the maximum number first.

261600 - 13625 = 247975 flowers to go

Now we have to divide by 109 since each container contains 109 flowers. This will give us the amount of containers we need.

247975/109 = 2275

We'll need 2275 containers of flowers in order to have 261600 flowers on the float.