Question

The fifth-grade students at Hawthorne Elementary School made an art project using two shapes of pasta. The students used 9 times as many elbow noodles as bowtie noodles. They used a total of 3,230 pieces of pasta. How many bowtie noodles did the students use?

Answer 1

2,907 pieces of bowtie noodles was used by the student

Explanation:

Here, we want to calculate the number of pieces of bowtie noodles use

Let the number of elbow noodles used be x

The number of bow tie noodles used is 9 times this and that will be 9 * x = 9x

Adding both together, we have 9x + x = 10x

Thus;

10x = 3230

x = 3230/10

x = 323 pieces

The number of pieces of bowtie noodles used will be 323 * 9 = 2,907 pieces