The owner of a bike shop sells unicycles and bicycles and keeps inventory by counting seats and wheels. One day, she counts 15 s

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The owner of a bike shop sells unicycles and bicycles and keeps inventory by counting seats and wheels. One day, she counts 15 s

eats and 22 wheels. The equation representing the total number of seats is u + b = 15 where u is the number of unicycles and b is the number of bicycles.Select the equation representing the number of wheels .
A. 2u + b = 22
B. 2u + b = 15
C. u + 2b = 22
D. u + 2b = 15

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2 answers:

Sphinxa [80] · Answer 1 · 2022-06-28T15:15:28+03:00

Sphinxa [80]3 years ago

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The correct answer is c u+2b=22

Slav-nsk [51] · Answer 2 · 2022-06-28T12:47:00+03:00

Slav-nsk [51]3 years ago

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The best answer is C.

u+2b=22
Unicycles have one wheel and bicycles have two, so the coefficient of 2 should go before the variable representing each bike.
It should equal 22 because 15 represents the total number of seats and not wheels.