Question

A food pantry is making packages. Each package weighs 64 pounds. Each of their packages contains 4 identical bags of rice and a 7-pound bag of beans. Write an equation to represent this situation (hint: your variable should represent the weight of each bag of rice).
Using your equation above, how much does each bag of rice weight? (in other words, solve your equation).

Answer 1

Answer:

64 = 4x + 7         Each bag of rice weighs 14.25 pounds.

Step-by-step explanation:

Each package is 64 pounds, which give us one side of the equal sign. The other side is ehre we make the 64 pounds. There is one 7 pound bag of beans, and four equal bags of rice. To find the pounds per bag of rice, we do 64-7 to get 57, then 57/4 to get 14.25