Answer:
Boxes sold first week = 104
Boxes sold second week =x+5= 104+5=109
Boxes sold third week = 109 times 2= 218
Step-by-step explanation:
Let x be the number of boxes sold in first week
the girls sold 5 more boxes the second week
So number of boxes sold in second week is x+5
they double the sales of the second week for the third week
So number of boxes sold in third week is 2 (x+5)
Total boxes sold is 431
subtract 15 from both sides
divide by 4 on both sides
Boxes sold first week = 104
Boxes sold second week =x+5= 104+5=109
Boxes sold third week = 104 times 2= 218
The answer is No it is not
5 packs of erasers and 3 packs of pencils each will have 60
The question is essentially asking for the least common multiple of 20 and 25. There are several ways you can find the LCM. One easy way is to divide the product by the GCD (greatest common divisor).
GCD(20, 25) = 5 . . . . . see below for a way to find this, if you don't already know
LCM(20, 25) = 20×25/GCD(20, 25)
... = 500/5 = 100
The buses will be there together again after ...
... B. 100 minutes
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You can also look at the factors of the numbers:
... 20 = 2²×5
... 25 = 5²
The least common multiple must have factors that include all of these*, so must be ...
... 2²×5² = 100
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* you can describe the LCM as the product of the unique factors to their highest powers. 20 has 2 raised to the 2nd power. 25 has 5 raised to the 2nd power, which is a higher power of 5 than is present in the factorization of 20. Hence the LCM must have 2² and 5² as factors.
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You can also look at the factorization of 20 and 25 to see that 5 is the only factor they have in common. That is the GCD, sometimes called the GCF (greatest common factor).
