Question

Your class earned $110.00 Saturday afternoon by washing cars to raise money for a class trip. This is 14 of the money needed for the trip. What is the total amount needed?

Answer 1

Answer: $1,540.00 is the total amount needed for the class trip

Explanation:

Data: $110.00 earned for class trip

14th of the money needed

Money needed: x

Step one, Make the equation

110x14=x

Reason: Since we know 110.00 is a 14th of the money needed, we know multipling it by 14 will get us the money needed for the class trip. Having it in an equation will make it easier to solve.

Step two, Evaluate the equation

110x14=x=1540=x

Reason: The only thing that was left to do was to multiply 110 by 14 to get 1540 since the x was already isolated to begin with. That leaves us with the answer of x=1540.

However, since this is a real world problem, we have to make the answer more realistic so the final answer is '$1,540.00 is the total amount needed for the class trip'

I hope this helps!