Delaney has $28.00 and buys a shirt for 14.00. Delaney used the equation 14x = 28 to model her scenario, where x represents the

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Delaney has $28.00 and buys a shirt for 14.00. Delaney used the equation 14x = 28 to model her scenario, where x represents the

amount of money she has left.
After solving her equation, Delaney says the solution x = 2, means that she has $2.00 left. Is she CORRECT? Why or why not?

Mathematics

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maksim [4K] · Answer 1 · 2022-11-11T03:02:45+03:00

maksim [4K]3 years ago

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She is incorrect because 14 multiplied by 2 equals 28, which means she wouldn’t have any money left over.