Question

Deigo has $11 and begins saving $5 each week toward buying a new phone.At the same time that Diego begins savings.Lin has $60 and begins spending $2 per week on supplies for her art class.is there a week when they have the same amount of money? How much do they have at the time ?

Answer 1

yes, after 7 weeks they will have the same amount of money. 46 dollars.

Explanation:

First start of by writing an expression to represent this problem

11 + 5x = 60 - 2x

combine like terms. and find value of x.

subtract 11 from the 60

5x = 49 - 2x

move the 2x over to the other side. So + 2x

7x = 49

divide 7 from 49

49/7

x = 7

x=7 amount of weeks they will have the same amount of money

Answer 2

On the eighth week, both Deigo and Limb will have the same amount of money of $46.