Question

Addison sells plants. She sold 7 times as many as tomato plants as pepper plants, for a total of 64 plants sold. How many pepper plants did she sell? PLEASE SOMEONE GIVE ME THE ANSWER AHHHH

Answer 1

She sold 8 pepper plants.

From this problem I made the equation
7p+p=64

I knew that it needed to be 7 times however many pepper plants she sold, so I substituted p until it equaled 64.

7*8+8=64
56+8=64
64=64

So she sold 8 pepper plants and 56 tomato plants for a total of 64 plants.

Answer 2

Answer:

8 pepper plants were sold.

Step-by-step explanation:

Assuming $x=$ the number of pepper plants sold, she sold $7x$ tomato plants and $x$ pepper plants, and since tomato plants sold + pepper plants sold = 64, we can turn this into the equation $7x+x=64$. To solve this first we combine like terms to get $8x=64$. Cancel the 8 by dividing both sides by 8 and we get $x=8$, which is the number of pepper plants sold. (We could also multiply x by 7 to get the number of tomato plants sold, which is 56.) Hope this helps!

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