At the candy store, M&Ms and Skittles are sold for $0.25 per ounce. Kevita puts some M&Ms in a bag and then added 8 ounc
es of Skittles. The total cost for her bag of candy is $7.50.
Kevita and Mary write the equation 0.25(x+8)=7.50 to represent the situation, where x represents the number of ounces of M&Ms.
Kevita says that to solve this equation, you first distribute the 0.25 through the parentheses to get0.25x+2=6.50.
Mary says that to solve this equation, you first divide by 0.5 on both sides to get x+8=30
Do you agree with either Kevita or Mary? Why? Finish solving the problem to find out how many ounces of M&Ms Kevita put in her bag of candy.
Kevita and Mary write the equation 0.25(x+8)=7.50 to represent the situation, where x represents the number of ounces of M&Ms.
Kevita says that to solve this equation, you first distribute the 0.25 through the parentheses to get0.25x+2=6.50.
Mary says that to solve this equation, you first divide by 0.5 on both sides to get x+8=30
Do you agree with either Kevita or Mary? Why? Finish solving the problem to find out how many ounces of M&Ms Kevita put in her bag of candy.
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Answer:
The only positive integers would be anything less than 3. So 1 or 2 would work
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If something that is already being raised to a power, gets raised to another power, those powers add up. So if it were , the exponents would add which would make it
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In the case of your question, if 'n' was 2 it would be to the power of 6 making it less than to the power of. 1 could also work