Question

When Meghan's cat doubles his current weight, w, he will weigh 10 pounds. Move values into the boxes to create an equation that represents this scenario?​

Answer 1

The current weight of the cat is w, and we know that when the cat doubles the weight, it will weight 10 pounds

Then we can write the equation

2*w = 10 pounds

Now we can solve this for w, we must divide by 2 in both sides of the equality.

2*w/2 = 10/2 pounds

w = 5 pounds

The actual weight of the cat is 5 pounds.