Kelly and Greta are asked to write an equation for the scenario below. "One person was able to plant 4 trees in the same amount
of time that 5 people working together were able to plant 20 trees." The girls agree that x represents the number of people working and y represents the number of trees planted. Kelly wrote the equation y = one-fourth x, and Greta wrote the equation y = 4 x. Which person is correct, and why?
This is because one person is able to plant four trees and five people are able to plant 20 in the same amount of time which means 4 trees is to 1 person. In other words if you substitute the values into the equation you will see that x = 1 in the first scenario and x = 5 in second scenario.I will work out the second scenario below.
