Question

A food truck sells tacos $1.25 a piece. The truck operator earned $360.00 last night.

How many tacos did the food truck sell last night?
28.8 tacos
288 tacos
300 tacos
2.88 tacos

Answer 1

288

Explanation:

Each taco is 1.25 dollars and you are trying to figure out how many tacos he sold to do this we make an equation.

Step 1

1.25 x = 360

x =is the amount of tacos sold.

Step 2

1.25 x = 360

/1.25 /1.25

to get x on its own we need to cancel out the 1.25 so we dived because it was multiplied to the x. we did the same on the other side to balance the equation.

Step 3

x = 288

we now need to identify what x is, we can see it is 288. If we trade x for what it means it is then this is your answer the amount of tacos sold=288

i hope this helps ;)