Question

Malia split up the large container of salsa that she bought into 5 bowls to place around her house for the party if each Bowl contain 8.5 ounces of the salsa which shows the correct equation and value of x the total amount of salsa in the original container

Answer 1

You never gave the answer choices but it should look something like this.

5 ⋅ 8.5 = x

or

x / 5 = 8.5

as for x. X=42.5