Question

Ms.Carger has has to send some emails in the afternoon.It takes her 3 minutes to start up her computer and log-in to her email, and then each email takes her 7 minutes to write and send.Write an equation to represent the number of emails she can send in x minutes.

Answer 1

Answer:

Ms. Carger would have sent $\frac{x-3\\}{7}$ emails in x minutes

Step-by-step explanation:

Firstly, Ms. Carger takes her 3 minutes to start up her computer and log-in to her email.

Therefore in x minutes, after starting up her computer and logging-in to her email, she would have x minutes minus the time used to start up her computer and log-in to her email. this implies she would have (x-3) minutes left for sending emails.

Since it takes 7 minutes to write and send each email,  in (x-3) minutes she would be able to send only $\frac{x-3}{7}$ emails.

Therefore equation to represent the number of emails she can send in x minutes is $\frac{x-3}{7}$ emails