Expressions, Equations

Question

Miya has some weekly chores to do at home. In one month, she washed 11 equal-sized loads of towels. She washed a total of 154 towels with t towels in each load.

Write a multiplication equation that can be used to find how many towels were in each load. Solve the equation you wrote. Explain how you solved your equation

Answer 1

Here's what we know:

Miya washed 154 towels in 11 equal loads. This means each load had the same number of towels in them. We are representing this number as "t".

To find out how many towels were in each load (or the number represented by "t"), we would divide 154 towels by the number of loads.

154 ÷ 11= 14 This is the number of towels that were in each load (the number represented by "t"). Now that we know what "t" is, we can write the multiplication equation to express how many towels will be washed when we wash 11 loads of 14 towels in each load:

11 × t = 154 To solve this equation for "t", simply divide 154 by 11.