Solving Linear Equations: Variable on One Side:
Assignment Test/ Contains 16 Solved
Questions.
Seventy of Myra's classmates are traveling by bus to a football game in
another town. They hired 2 buses, but there were only 64 seats. The
remaining 6 students had to travel in a separate van.
The equation 2b + 6 = 70 represents the given scenario. What does b
represent? - Answer: C. the number of students who rode on each bus
Stefan's family rented a rototiller to prepare an area in their backyard
for spring planting. The rental company charged an initial fee of $43
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, with an additional fee per hour. If they paid $64 after renting the
rototiller for 7 hours, what was the hourly fee?
If h represents the hourly fee, which equation models this problem?
What was the hourly fee for the rototiller? - Answer: 1. 7h+43=64
2. $3
Lorena solved the equation 5k - 3(2k-2/3)-9=0. Her steps are below.
5k - 6k + 2 - 9 = 0
-k - 7 = 0
-k = 7
k=1/7
Analyze Lorena's work to determine which statements are correct.
Check all that apply. - Answer: 1. In Step 1, she correctly distributed -3
to the parentheses.
4. In Step 4, she should have multiplied both sides by-1 to isolate the
variable.
This week, Michael collected $468 for delivering newspapers. He had 40
repeat customers and 18 new ones. As an incentive, he charged the
new subscribers $3 less than the repeat customers.
If x represents the amount Michael collects from each repeat customer,
which equation models this problem?
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Assignment Test/ Contains 16 Solved
Questions.
Seventy of Myra's classmates are traveling by bus to a football game in
another town. They hired 2 buses, but there were only 64 seats. The
remaining 6 students had to travel in a separate van.
The equation 2b + 6 = 70 represents the given scenario. What does b
represent? - Answer: C. the number of students who rode on each bus
Stefan's family rented a rototiller to prepare an area in their backyard
for spring planting. The rental company charged an initial fee of $43
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, with an additional fee per hour. If they paid $64 after renting the
rototiller for 7 hours, what was the hourly fee?
If h represents the hourly fee, which equation models this problem?
What was the hourly fee for the rototiller? - Answer: 1. 7h+43=64
2. $3
Lorena solved the equation 5k - 3(2k-2/3)-9=0. Her steps are below.
5k - 6k + 2 - 9 = 0
-k - 7 = 0
-k = 7
k=1/7
Analyze Lorena's work to determine which statements are correct.
Check all that apply. - Answer: 1. In Step 1, she correctly distributed -3
to the parentheses.
4. In Step 4, she should have multiplied both sides by-1 to isolate the
variable.
This week, Michael collected $468 for delivering newspapers. He had 40
repeat customers and 18 new ones. As an incentive, he charged the
new subscribers $3 less than the repeat customers.
If x represents the amount Michael collects from each repeat customer,
which equation models this problem?
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