Question

Joshua is making spaghetti and meatballs for dinner for his friends. Joshua makes 30 meatballs. If Joshua wants 5 meatballs on each plate of spaghetti, how many plates can Joshua make? Write an equation to represent the scenario, and solve.

Answer 1

Answer:

$x = 6$

Step-by-step explanation:

Given

Let y represent the number of meatballs in total and x represents the number of plates.

$y = 30$

$Rate = 5$ per plate

Required

Determine the value of x

To solve for x, we make use of the following expression.

$y = Rate * x$

Substitute values for y and Rate

$30 = 5 * x$

$30 = 5 x$

Divide through by 5

$30/5 = 5 x/5$

$6 = x$

$x = 6$

Hence, number of plates is 6