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A group of 13 people are going out on a lake. Five of them will fit on one sailboat, and the rest

will be divided among 2-person canoes. This situation can be modeled by the equation 13 = 2c +
5. What does the solution to this equation represent?
A. Each canoe will carry 4 people.
B. They will take 4 canoes.
C. They will take 9 canoes.
D. They will take 3 canoes and one sailboat, for

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B. Because five of them are already on a sail boat so there’s only 8 left you then divid it by 2 because of the two people each canoe so your answer is four canoes
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Answer:

b

Explanation:

Because if there are 13 people and 5 on a sailboat that leaves 8. 2 people in a canoe so 4 canoes for the eight people.

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