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).
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
