What is the answer to this equation ?

Question

A caden and a bench cost $787 combinedThe garden table costs $37 more than the bench What is the cost of the bench?

Answer 1

Let's use the variable b to represent the cost of the bench.

Then we can write the following expression to represent the cost of the table: b + 37

Now we can create and solve the following equation to determine the cost of the bench first:

Total cost = cost of bench + cost of table

$787 = b + b + 37

787 = 2b + 37

787 - 37 = 2b + 37 - 37

750 = 2b

750/2 = 2b /2

375 = b

The cost of the bench is $375

The cost of the table will be $375 + 37 = $412