Math help / alegbra 1 / 8th grade

Question

A cardboard box, which weighs 0.6 pounds 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 . In this situation, what does the solution to the equation represent? ​

Answer 1

solution is the weight of one bag of beans

=b = 21/15 =7/3 = 2 1/3 pound bean bag