Kara A.

asked • 09/22/20

Box of beans and rice

A cardboard box, which weighs 0.6 pounds when empty, is filled with 15 bags of beans and a 4-pound bag of rice. The total weight of the box and the contents inside it is 25.6 pounds. One way to represent this situation is with the equation 0.6+15b+4=25.6.

  1. In this situation, what does the solution to the equation represent?


Theresa C.

solve for b (lbs of beans in a bag of beans) .6 + 4 + 15b = 25.6 4.6 - 4.6 + 15b = 25.6 - 4.6 15b = 21 b = 21/15 b = 7/5 or 1.4 so each bag of beans weighs 1.4 lbs
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09/22/20

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