Question

Each person in share's family of 5 eats 3 bowls of cereal each week. Her mother is going grocery shopping and wants to know how many bowls of cereal they will eat over the next 4 weeks.
write and solve an equation to find how many bowls of cereal the family will eat.Use a letter for the unknown quantity.

Answer 1

5x3x4=n is the answer

Answer 2

Y = 5(3x)....y = total number of bowls and x = number of weeks

for 4 weeks......x = 4
y = 5(3*4)
y = 5(12)
y = 60...so the family will eat 60 bowls in 4 weeks