Question

You and a friend need to deliver 776 ounces of cookies. You deliver 45 cookie boxes and your friend delivers 52 cookie boxes .write and solve an equation to find the weight of each cookie box

Answer 1

⓵ If they delivered all 776 ounces that they needed to deliver :

45 boxes + 52 boxes = 776 ounces

97 boxes = 776 ounces

Which means that 97 boxes weight 776 ounces!

⓶ You have to do a cross product in order to find out the weight of a single box :

97 boxes → 776 ounces
1 box → × ounces


(776 x 1) ÷ 97 = ×

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(776) ÷ 97 = ×

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776 ÷ 97 = 8

Which means that × = 8 (× being the weight of a single box)!


So to answer your problem : "Write and solve an equation to find the weight of each cookie box”

↠ My equation was : × = (776 x 1) ÷ 97

↠ The weight of each cookie box :
8 ounces


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