Question

Maisy hiked for 5 hours and burned 750 calories. She wants to find out how many calories she burned per hour, so she wrote the equation 5x=750 , where x represents the number of calories Maisy burned per hour. How many calories did Maisy burn in one hour?

Answer 1

x = 150

Explanation:

Given that,

The equation that is used to find out how many calories she burned per hour, the equation is as follows :

5x = 750

We need to find how many calories did Maisy burn in one hour.

For 1 hour use unitary method such that,

x = (750/5)

x = 150

So, she can 150 calories in one hour.