Question

At noon the elves had 30 action figures ready for Santa. They continued to produce 20 action figures per minute.Write an equation to model this situation (use m for minutes and n for number of action figures).

Answer 1

Let m represent the number of minutes and n represent the number of action figures.

We were told that the elves continued to produce 20 action figures per minute. This means that in m minutes, they produced 20m. If they already produced 30 figures, then, the equation used to model this situation is

n = 20m + 30