Question

Each of the s swimmers on the relay team swam an equal number of the 8 laps in a race. Write an expression that shows how many laps each swimmer swam.

Answer 1

The number of laps that Swimmer A swam was 50 laps.

How to form mathematical expression from the given description?

You can represent the unknown amounts by the use of variables. Follow whatever the description is and convert it one by one mathematically. For example if it is asked to increase some item by 4 , then you can add 4 in that item to increase it by 4. If something is for example, doubled, then you can multiply that thing by 2 and so on methods can be used to convert description to mathematical expressions.

Let we suppose that:

Swimmer A swam x laps

Swimmer B swam y laps.

Then, according to the given data, we have:

x    +    y   =   175   laps

y    =   25   +  2x  

(25 more than twice of laps of A is the number of laps of B).

Thus, we get a system of two equations:

x   +   25  +  2x  =   175

3x   +  25    =   175

3x   =   175  -  25  =  150

x   =   50

As x is the number of laps Swimmer A swam, thus, the number of laps that Swimmer A swam was 50 laps.

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