Question

What does the side of your equation that represents Monday look like? Ex. 10x+14

Answer 1

We know that both days Elaine runs the same distance, so:

`\text{distance on monday=distance on tuesday}`

From the question, we can find the followed expressions:

`\text{Distance on monday=5 + 3x , where x is the amount of miles the trail has.}`
`\text{distance on tuesday= 6+2x}`

So, we have:

`5+3x=6+2x\text{ }\rightarrow\text{ x=1}`

So, the trail is 1 mile long.