Question

Could Keenan have started with 6 strawberries? Use your expression to explain why or why not.

Answer 1

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The complete Question:

Keenan gives Tisha half of his strawberries. Tisha keeps 4 of the strawberries she got from Keenan and gives the rest to Suvi.

a) Write an expression for the number of strawberries Tisha gives to Suvi. Use k for the number of strawberries Keenan started with.

b) Could Keenan have started with 6 strawberries? Use your expression to explain why or why not.

Answer:

Part a)

An expression for the number of strawberries Tisha gives to Suvi will be: $n=\frac{k}{2} -4$

Part b)

Keenan could not have started with 6 strawberries

Step-by-step explanation:

Part a) Write an expression for the number of strawberries Tisha gives to Suvi. Use k for the number of strawberries Keenan started with.

Let $k$ be the total number of strawberries which Keenan has.

So,

$\frac{k}{2}$ is the number of strawberries Keenan gave to Tisha.

As Tisha keeps 4 strawberries and gives the rest to Suvi. Let $n$ be the number of strawberries which Suvi has.

So,

$n=\frac{k}{2} -4$

$\frac{k}{2}=n+4$

$k=2n+8$

Therefore, an expression for the number of strawberries Tisha gives to Suvi will be: $n=\frac{k}{2} -4$

b) Could Keenan have started with 6 strawberries? Use your expression to explain why or why not.

Considering the expression for the number of strawberries Tisha gives to Suvi

$n=\frac{k}{2} -4$

Putting $k = 6$ in the expression

$n=\frac{6}{2} -4$

Solving the expression

$n=3-4$         ∵ $\mathrm{Divide\:the\:numbers:}\:\frac{6}{2}=3$

$\mathrm{Subtract\:the\:numbers:}\:3-4=-1$

$n=-1$

So, Keenan would have started with 6 strawberries, then Suvi would have -1 strawberries. Since, strawberries cannot be negative as Suvi cannot have negative number of strawberries.

Therefore, Keenan could not have started with 6 strawberries.

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