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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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.

anonymous · Answer

A scale has several blocks on the right tray and a bag of blocks on the left tray. If someone removes blocks from the bag and leaves 10 blocks to balance the scale, can you tell how many blocks were originally in the bag? Explain your answer

nory · Answer

x is the number of total ounces of juice in all the glasses.
to solve for x in x/8 = 5, you would multiply both sides by 8 to get x = 40. There's your answer! Done.
Hope that helps.