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Solving real-world math problems requires patients and understanding. In order to familiarize students with these kinds of problems, teachers include word problems in their math curriculum. However, word problems can present a real challenge if students don't know how to break them down and find the numbers in the story. There is an art to solving word problems.

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Janine owns a catering service company. She was hired to cater for the mayor’s 50th birthday. The second food item she has to prepare is soup. She needs 280 cups of mushroom soup. If the first team made 90 cups in 60 minutes, and the third team made 70 cups in 90 minutes, how many cups should the second team prepare in order to meet the required amount of soup?

Answer 1

Total # of cups = 280

1st team = 90 cups in 60 minutes

2nd team = x cups in t minutes

3rd team = 70 cups in 90 minutes

# of cups to be made by 2nd team to meet required amount = 280 - 90 - 70 = 120 cups.

The second team needs to prepare 120 cups to meet requirement

Answer 2

Janine owns a catering service company. She was hired to cater for the mayor’s 50th birthday. The second food item she must prepare is soup. She needs 280 cups of mushroom soup. If the first team made 90 cups in 60 minutes, and the third team made 70 cups in 90 minutes, how many cups should the second team prepare to meet the required amount of soup?



Answer:

If I add together: 90 + 70 =160, then 280 - 169 = 120.

The second team should prepare 120 cups of soup.