Question

For the situation write and solve an equation. Then, explain what your solution means.A food pantry is making packages. each package weighs 64 lb. Each package contains four boxes. Each box contains a 7lb bag of beans and a bag of rice. The bags of rice are all identical.

Answer 1

Each package weighs 64 lb

each package contains 4 boxes

64lb= 4 boxes

Then:

Each box contains a 7lb of bags of beans and 1 bag of rise

4 (x+ 7)

x= weight of each bag of rise

64 = 4 (x + 7)

Solve for x

64 = 4x + 28

64-28 =4x

36 = 4x

36/4 = x

9=x

Each bag of rice weighs 9 lb