Question

At practice, Diego does twice as many push-ups as Noah, and also 40 jumping jacks. He does 62 exercises in total.

The equation: 2x + 40 = 62 describes this situation. What does the variable x represent?

Answer 1

Explanation:

x = number of pushups he did

Answer 2

the number of pushups done by Noah

Explanation:

if Noah did x amount of pushups then Diego did twice as many, which is 2x therefore in this equation x represents the number of pushups done by Noah