Janae distributed a carton of orange juice equally among 8 glasses. When she finished, each glass contained 5 ounces. You can use the equation x over eight equals five to represent this problem. Explain what x represents. How would you solve for x? Explain why.

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anonymous · Answer

X would represent the total ounces in the carton, because it was divided among 8 glasses, each one having 5 ounces. 

x/8=5

How would you solve that?

anonymous · Answer

You got to multiply from each side.

anonymous · Answer

Yep, multiply each side by 8, right? what do you get

anonymous · Answer

40

anonymous · Answer

So theres only one step, that wont take long to explain will it? since you're dividing by 8 on one side you have to do the opposite operation of that to both sides to get rid of it, multiplying both sides by 8

anonymous · Answer

So you have to subtract?

anonymous · Answer

Where did we subtract? All you did was multiply both sides by 8, and then you're done

anonymous · Answer

oh ok.