Janae distributed a jar of salsa equally among 2 serving bowls. When she finished, each bowl contained 6 ounces of salsa. You can use the equation x over two equals six to represent this problem. Explain what x represents.
Im confused about what the x would represent..

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Janae distributed a jar of salsa equally among 2 serving bowls. When she finished, each bowl contained 6 ounces of salsa. You can use the equation x over two equals six to represent this problem. Explain what x represents. 
Im confused about what the x would represent..

anonymous · Answer

the x = number of ounces in the jar.

anonymous · Answer

thank you.

anonymous · Answer

YW

anonymous · Answer

Word problems are tricky. Read them 2 or 4 times till they click.

anonymous · Answer

What gives that answer to this word problem is that we know we have a Jar and we know after she poors the salsa in the two bowls there was 6 ounces of salsa in each bowel. the equation is  x /2(bowels) = 6.  Since we know there is 12 ounce because each bowl got 6 ounce, we know the jar had 12 ounces. If we put 12 where x is we get our answer.
$$ \frac{x}{2} = 6 $$
$$ \frac{12}{2} = 6 $$

So x = number of ounces in the jar.