Question

1. Emmanuel bought 28 lb of potting soil this week. This amount is 4 lb more than twice the amount of potting soil he bought last week. Answer the following questions to find the number of pounds of soil Emmanuel purchased last week.
(a) What is the unknown information?
(b) Let p represent the unknown information. Write an equation to model the problem.
(c) Which number, 10, 11, or 12, will solve the equation in Part (b)? Show your work.
(d) How many pounds of potting soil did Emmanuel buy last week?

Answer 1

what do you thing the unknown info is @MrCoolGuy ?

Answer 2

think*

Answer 3

we know that he bought 28lb this week.

Answer 4

and that the amount is 4lb MORE than what he bought last week, right?

Answer 5

tag me when you come back online @MrCoolGuy

Answer 6

@RedR0se03399

Answer 7

okie

Answer 8

any idea as to what the unknown is?

Answer 9

no because, it's unknown LOOOOOOOOL

Answer 10

....

Answer 11

jk idk help

Answer 12

....

Answer 13

ok, so what do we know?

Answer 14

ik that i need help and ucan give it to me

Answer 15

not if you keep acting like this.

Answer 16

Sorry!

Answer 17

read over the question, and tell me what we know.

Answer 18

it's asking, (a) What is the unknown information?

We know that we need to find out what the unknown is, so far.

Answer 19

-.-

Answer 20

Emmanuel bought 28 lb of potting soil this week. This amount is 4 lb more than twice the amount of potting soil he bought last week. Answer the following questions to find the number of pounds of soil Emmanuel purchased last week.

Answer 21

that question.

Answer 22

yes

Answer 23

ill ask again, what do we know?

Answer 24

we know that he bought 28lb this week.

Answer 25

good!

Answer 26

what else do we know?

Answer 27

and that the amount is 4lb MORE than what he bought last week.

Answer 28

4lb more than twice the amount he bought last week, right?

Answer 29

yes

Answer 30

so, what DONT we know?

Answer 31

idk

Answer 32

.... it is the only variable that they do not give us.

Answer 33

x

Answer 34

omg

Answer 35

how much soil did he buy last week?

Answer 36

a lot

Answer 37

omg, you are impossible!

Answer 38

im sorr

Answer 39

its ok...

Answer 40

ty

Answer 41

so....

Answer 42

what dont we know?

Answer 43

how much he bot

Answer 44

when?

Answer 45

Last week

Answer 46

good!

Answer 47

so, how would we be able to find out how much he bought last week?