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Question

Rebecca bought 50 oz of flour for her bakery. She used 18.5 oz to make a loaf of bread, and 1.02 oz for each muffin. How many muffins did Rebecca make if she had 17.22 oz of flour left over?

Answer 1

To answer this problem let's make an equation. But first, we have some important numbers that we need to understand what they mean:

50 = total amount of flour

18.5= flour to make a loaf of bread

1.02 = amount to make one muffin

17.22= flour left over.

Now let's make the equation:

number of muffins + flour for a loaf of bread + leftover flour = total amount of flour

1.02(each muffin) + 18.5 + 17.22 = 50. let's use the letter m to represent one muffin

1.02m +18.5 +17.22 = 50. combine like terms (add the 18.5 + 17.22)

1.02m + 35.72 = 50 subtract 35.72 from both sides of the equation

-35.72. -35.72

1.02m = 14.28 divide 14.28 by 1.02

m = 14 the answer is 14 muffins

Answer 2

Here's how I would look at this problem Abhinav!

We are trying to find the number of muffins Rebecca made (we'll call it "m"). We know from the problem that she used 1.02 oz of flour for each muffin. So, if we can figure out how much total flour she used for those muffins, we'll be able to calculate the number of the muffins "m" by dividing the amount of flour she used for them by 1.02.

So what we need to do is remove any flour from the equation that wasn't for the muffins, and then we'll know that the remaining flour was used for the muffins. She started with 50 oz of flour and we know that she used 18.5 oz for a loaf of bread. That leaves us with 31.5 oz (50 - 18.5). We also know that she didn't use all the flour, because there was 17.22 oz left over at the end. Since this also wasn't used for the muffins, we can subtract this amount as well. 31.5 - 17.22 = 14.28. This is the amount of flour she used for muffins!

Knowing that she used 1.02 oz of flour for each muffin, we can now divide 14.28 by 1.02. This gives us our answer for "m" = 14.

To express this as an equation would look like this:

50 - 18.5 - 17.22 = 1.02m

14.28 = 1.02m

14 = m

Hope this helps you!

Answer 3

Quick Algebraic Answer:

Solving for m in the following equation, where m is the number of muffins, will also get the same solution:

1.02m + 18.5 + 17.22 = 50

Fully Explained Answer:

Let's look at this question one step at a time:

We know that Rebecca already has 50 oz of flour and we know that 18.5 oz of flour were used to make a loaf of bread. So we can subtract 18.5 oz from 50 oz to get 31.5 oz of flour. This means that she had a total of 31.5 oz of flour remaining to make muffins. (50-18.5 = 31.5)

Now, we also know that there was 17.22 oz of flour left over as well. So, we need to find how much flour Rebecca used to make her muffins. We can do this by subtracting 17.22 oz from our 31.5 oz of flour to get 14.28 oz of flour. (31.5 - 17.22 = 14.28).

Since we know that Rebecca used 14.28 oz of flour for her muffins, we can find how many muffins she made. This is because we know that each muffin needs 1.02 oz of flour. So, we can take our 14.28 oz of flour and divide it by 1.02 oz to get 14 muffins. (14.28/1.02 = 14)

Remember, when you are dividing, you are splitting a whole into multiple parts or you are finding how many parts there are in a whole. In the previous step we wanted to see how many parts (1.02 oz of flour for each muffin) were in a whole (14.28 oz of flour).