Jills dogs are named Picket and Casey. Picket is older than Casey and weighs 54 pounds. Pickel weighs 2 times Casey's weight. To
figure out Casey's weight, Jill wrote out the following number sentence: 2 x N=54 What does N represent?
A. Casey’s age
B. Pickets age
C. Casey’s weight
D. Pickets weight
(a) = 400 (b) (c) Only the positive solution makes sense because you cannot have a negative side length. (d) Since one side of the painting is 20 inches, all four sides together will be 20*4 = 80 inches
= 400
