Question

Jorge earns $3.25 every time he does dishes. He does the dishes 2 times each week.

In the first box, enter an equation that represents the amount of money, m, Jorge earns doing dishes for any
number of weeks, w.
In the second box, enter the fewest number of whole weeks Jorge needs to work to buy a $70 video game.

{Please Help on math!}

Answer 1

First Box Solution: 6.5w = m

Second Box Solution: 11 weeks

Explanation:

For one week of washing the dishes he makes 6.5 dollars. 3.25*2 = 6.5 dollars per week. So "w" amount of weeks * 6.5 dollars per week = m- total money. Now we need to divide 70 by 6.5


70/1*2/13 = 140/13 =10 10/13 weeks

It takes 10 10/13 weeks to get 70 dollars but we can round it up to 11 weeks in total.