Ernesto loses 14.5 pounds in 7 months. Now he weighs 156.5 pounds. Which equation can be used to find how much he weighed before? Please help!

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Ernesto loses 14.5 pounds in 7 months. Now he weighs 156.5 pounds. Which equation can be used to find how much he weighed before?  Please help!

anonymous · Answer

add 14.5 to 156.5 to find the previous weight

anonymous · Answer

i suppose if you wanted to be silly you could say 
"solve $x-14.5=156.5$ for $x$ " but really, just add

anonymous · Answer

Ok- it would be 171 weight. Thank you so much!!!! I am new to Open Study by the way. :)

anonymous · Answer

add the old pounds to the new pounds that seven is the irrelivent information