Question

Cierra has three more than 1/2 as many purses as Asia defined a variable and write an expression to represent the number of purses in cierras collection if asia has 12 purses

Answer 1

The equation representing the number of purses Ceirra has is
`c=3+(1)/(2)* a`.

Ceirra has 9 purses in her collection.

Explanation:

Given,

Cierra has three more than 1/2 as many purses as Asia.

Solution,

Let the number of purses Cierra has be 'c'.

And also the number of purses Asia has be 'a'.

Now according to question, Cierra has 3 more than 1/2 purses as Asia has.

Framing in equation form, we get;

`c=3+(1)/(2)* a`

Hence The equation representing the number of purses Ceirra has is
`c=3+(1)/(2)* a`.

Now we solve the equation;

Since Asia has 12 purses.

So we substitute the value of 'a', and get;

`c=3+(1)/(2)*12=3+6=9`

Hence Ceirra has 9 purses in her collection.