Question

Gary bought 32 lb of potting soil this week this amount is 6 lb more than twice the amount of potting soil he bought last week answer the following questions to find the number of pounds of soil Gary purchased last week what is the unknown information that. Presenting information write an equation to model the problem remember your creation was contained and nonverbal key which number 9 11 or 13 was tall equation of Harvey

Answer 1

Let the amount of potting soil bought last week be $x$

We know that this week's amount is 32 lb
We also know that this week's amount is double the amount of last week's plus 6 lb 

So we write the equation:
$32 = 2x+6$

Solving this equation:
$32=2x+6$ ⇒ subtracting 6 from both sides
$32-6=2x+6-6$
$26=2x$ ⇒ Dividing both sides by 2
$\frac{26}{2}= \frac{2x}{2}$
$13=x$

The answer is: 13