Students are given 3 minutes to complete each multiple-choice question on a test and 8 minutes for each free-response question.
There are 15 questions on the test and the students have been given 55 minutes to complete it. A Table titled Test Time, showing Number of Questions, Time per Item in minutes, and Total Time in minutes. The first row shows Multiple Choice, with m, 3, and 3 m. The second row shows Free Response, with 15 minus m, 8, and x. The third row shows Total, with 15, blank, and 55. Which value could replace x in the table? 7 – m 23 – m 8(15 – m) 8(15) – m
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I’m pretty sure I did my math right, hope this helps.
I actually did this problem today for edge , I included a picture that I used to understand how to do this problem the answer is 1%.
So when you're solving for x here and distribute 8 on the right side, it would look like this:
Now in order to solve for x, we know we have to get all the x's on one side of the equal sign. Let's get all our x's to the left side. Since the right side has a positive 8x, you need to subtract 8x on the right. But whatever you do to one side you must do to the other. So since we are subtracting 8x on the right, we need to do that on the left.
But we can't! Since both sides will cancel out to zero before x can be solved.
Therefore the answer is 0.
Hope that helps!