Question

Charlotte bought a 14 pound bag of ice. Bythe time she got home, 10% of the bag hadmelted and dripped out of the bag. Howmuch did the ice weigh when she got home?

Answer 1

According to the information given in the exercise, the weight of the bag of ice when Charlotte bought it was 14 pounds, but 10% dripped out of the bag when she got home.

You can express 10% as a decimal number by 100:

`(10)/(100)=0.1`

Let be "x" the weight of the bag of ice (in pounds) when Charlotte got home.

Based on the above, you can write the following equation: