Question

ASAP! Due tomorrow! 25 points! Read the word problem. Write an equation to represent the word problem. Solve the equation. During the Christmas break, Joe collected two times a number of tadpoles plus two. His sister gave him the product of three and a number of tadpoles. Joe has 10 tadpoles left. What is the number of tadpoles?

Answer 1

What you gotta take from this problem:

What Joe got during break = $2t+2$

What his sister gave him = $3t$

What he has total = 10 tadpoles.


Now to assemble this equation:

$2t+2+3t=10$

Now combine like terms to get $5t+2=10$

Subtract 2 on each side of the equation to get $5t=8$

Now you would divide 5 on each side and get $t=1.6$ , however since you can't have a .6 of a tadpole, you would have to round it up to 2.