Joshua currently does a total of 8 pushups each day. He plans to increase the number of pushups he does each day by 2 pushups un til he is doing a total of 30 pushups each day. How many days would this take? Use x to represent days.
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He currently does 8, and is increasing by 2, so our equation will be
Answer:
x= 2
So therefore we first work out it takes 12 days so we cna condense this to 6x and make the equation -4x+6x = 12 to find how many press ups he used to do.
To find day increase = (x+5x) = 6x = 12
Or to find amount of press ups per day = 3x x 5x =30
Step-by-step explanation:
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