Since the price of the cantaloupes is unknown, it will have to represented by a variable. Let's use x.
If Jackson starts with $25 and buys 5 cantaloupes of an unknown price, this subtracts 5 times the amount of 1 cantaloupe (which is x) from that $25.
This is shown as 25 - 5x.
After spending that money, he has $2.50 left over.
This means 25 - 5x = 2.50.
Now you just need to solve this by first isolating the variable.
First, subtract 25 from both sides.
25 - 5x - 25 = -5x
2.50 - 25 = -22.5
Then, divide both sides by -5. It's -5 since 5 is the coefficient and it's negative, so -5.
-5x / -5 = x
-22.5 / -5 = 4.5
This means x = 4.5.
And if x is 4.5, then that means the cost of 1 cantaloupe is $4.50.
8, because the two minuses add up and turn into positive and 1/5 adds to 4/5 and turns into a whole 1 and adds 7 equal 8
44x is the way the points are calculated. In order to find out the amount of questions there needs to be a constant, 10 which represents the number of wrong questions, and a variable, x which represents the number of correct questions. You have to know that if wrong questions were counted, he would have 440 points just for the 10 wrong questions. Next you have to add the amount of correct questions and their corresponding points. The numbers that you get should be put together with the wrong questions. The points for the wrong questions don't count but the questions do. When you find the number, (I don't know what it is so I will use x but you will have to find out what it is) you will add x, the number of correct questions to the 10 incorrect questions and then you will have 10+x for the questions. You will need to use 44x to find out the number of points and once you have done that, you use this equation to average the points over the total questions: 44x/10+x
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The answer would be 3.2, since .2 is equivalent to 1/5 ^^
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