Question

A different factory produces red pens and green pens, of the pens produced at the factory each week, 3/4 are red. I’m a week when 39,000 red pens are produced, the factory manager uses this equation 3/4y = 39,000. What does the variable y represent in the managers equation

Answer 1

y is the total the pens produced at the factory each week

Explanation:

total pens produced at the factory each week = y (=52,000)

3/4 of the total are red ( 39,000)