Question

1. At the beach, you would like to fill 5 buckets with seashells. You have 8 minutes to do so. If you set a steady pace, how much of a bucket should you fill in each minute?

2. At a party, the amount of people who ate lasagna was 9 less than 2/5 of the total number of people. The number of people who ate lasagna was 13. Write and solve an equation to find the number of people at the party. Let x represent the number of people at the party.

3. A shopper plans to buy 20 cans of soup. He will buy only chicken noodle and beef stew. Write an equation to represent this situation.

Answer 1

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