Equations in One Variable Answers

The Blakely family has driven 50 miles of a 200-mile trip. Their car travels 30 miles per gallon of gas. How many gallons of gasoline, g, will the car use on the remainder of the trip?

For a snack, Sameer ate a plum with 32 calories and several strawberries with 4 calories each. If the total number of calories in Sameer’s snack was 56, how many strawberries did he eat?

What is the solution set of –|x| = –8?

A cylindrical container has a height of 24 inches. Currently, the container is filled with water to a height of 18 inches. A leaky faucet drips into the container, causing the height of the water in the container to increase by 2 inches per hour. The equation below can be used to find t, the number of hours it would take to fill the container.18 + ?t = 24What number should be the coefficient of t?

The cooking time for a mini-loaf of bread is 5 minutes longer than half the time it takes to bake a regular-sized loaf of bread. If it takes 25 minutes to bake a mini-loaf, how long does it take to bake a regular-sized loaf?

In order to isolate the variable term in the equation 6 – 2x = –3 using the subtraction property of equality, which number should be subtracted from both sides of the equation?

What is the solution set of |–x| = –10?

For each hour he babysits, Anderson earns $1 more than half of Carey’s hourly rate. Anderson earns $6 per hour. Which equation can be used to solve for Carey’s hourly rate, c?

The length of a rectangle is 4 units shorter than half the width. If the length of the rectangle is 18 units, which equation can be used to find w, the width of the rectangle?

Carina begins to solve the equation by adding 4 to both sides. Which statements regarding the rest of the solving process could be true? Select three options.After adding 4 to both sides, the equation is .After adding 4 to both sides, the equation is .The equation can be solved for using exactly one more step by multiplying both sides by .The equation can be solved for x using exactly one more step by dividing both sides by .The equation can be solved for x using exactly one more step by multiplying both sides by .