write an equation that can be used to determine how far the baseball field is from the elementary school.

Question

bill ran two miles to the baseball field and then ran to the elementary school. the total distance that he ran was six miles.

Answer 1

His trip looks something like this:

 

Home.......Ball Field........ School

|<  2miles >|<       x miles     >|

|<                6 miles               >|

 

The problem tells us that the entire distance is 6 miles. 

And we know that the first part of the trip, from home to the BallField is 2 miles. The unknown is the distance from the field to school, so I called that x. 

 

I would write this: 2 + x = 6

 

The two parts on the left are the two parts of his trip; first from home to the field and then from the field to school. The 6 is the entire trip. To solve this, we need to subtract 2 from both sides. The solution is x = 4 miles.