Show me your equation to solve this.
2006-08-23 05:05:33 · 16 answers · asked by Velociraptor 5 in Education & Reference ➔ Other - Education
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I don't know the exact equation, I just kind of "felt" the answer!
It's along the lines of:
25 (frogs) ÷
5 (Jen [1] + Lisa [4] = 5)
= 5 frogs for Jen
EDIT: Go with the x's!
I struggled to pass Math because I knew the answers but couldn't show why! I still struggle with basic math today - 15 years later!
2006-08-23 05:07:29 · answer #1 · answered by chocolette 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jen caught 5 Lisa 5x4=20 20+5 =25
2006-08-23 05:12:54 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2006-08-23 05:11:07 · answer #3 · answered by Jcontrols 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2006-08-23 05:10:56 · answer #4 · answered by AL 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2006-08-23 05:07:36 · answer #5 · answered by jim 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2006-08-23 05:07:32 · answer #6 · answered by krd12 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ok.... jen and lisa caught 25 so: 4 tiimes some thing is 4x (x represents the variety of frogs that jen has so lisa caught 4 tmes as many..... ) x(jen)+ 4x(lisa) = 25 upload the x`s 5x =25 clean x 25 /5 = 5 X=5 jen caught 5 and lisa 20 (4 circumstances x(5)= 20 )
2016-11-05 11:12:06 · answer #7 · answered by ai 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Let's say that the number of frogs caught by Jen is x.
Lisa caught 4 times as many as Jen, so Lisa caught 4x.
Two girls caught 25 frogs. So together, they both caught 25 frogs. You need to add them together. So you set up the equation as
4x + x = 25 (number of frogs Lisa caught + the number of frogs that Jen caught equals the total they caught together, 25)
Add like terms together. 4x +x can also be seen as 5x.
(if that doesn't make sense to you, see it with an object. If you have one frog in one basket, and four frogs in another, you can just put them all in one basket and have 5, rather than four and one)
so now you have 5x = 25. you need to get x by itself so you can see what it equals, because you are solving for x, and remember, x is the number of frogs that JEN caught.
so to get x by itself, you need to divide the entire 5x by five. What you do to one side of an equation, you have to do the same thing to the other side. so you have to divide 25 by five as well.
25 divided by 5 is equal to five.
so x is equal to five. Jen caught 5 frogs.
You can also figure out that Lisa caught 20 frogs, as 20 = 4 x 5
so 4x + x = 25, or 20 + 5 = 25.
2006-08-23 05:43:30 · answer #8 · answered by Sadie555 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lisa had four times as many frogs as Jen.
Now say the number of frogs Jen caught is x, then Lisa caught 4x
x + 4x = 25
5x = 25
x = 5
So Jen caught 5 and Lisa caught 20.
2006-08-23 05:08:38 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jen caught 5 frogs.
2006-08-23 05:10:40 · answer #10 · answered by AR2 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋