Question

Zack is in a hot dog eating contest. He wants to eat 60 hot dogs. He has already eaten 15 hot dogs and

can eat 5 hot dogs every minute. How many minutes will it take him to eat 60 hot dogs

Answer 1

9 minutes

Explanation:

You want to write this as an equation in order to find out how many minutes it will take. So it will look something like this:

15+5x=60

-15 -15

Then you want to get like terms together

5x=45

And divide to get x alone

x=9.

So 9 minutes

Answer 2

12 minutes

Explanation:

Since Zack can eat 5 hot dogs every minute divide the 60 hot dogs he wants to eat by 5 and you would get 12 (the amount of minutes)

I hope this is easy to understand:)