Question

Melinda rent paddle boats down at the pier she is a 5.5 feet of nylon rope to tie off each boat she started with 80 feet of rope after securing all the boat she was left with more than 3 feet of rope how many boats and Melinda tie off

Answer 1

so given that Melinda started with 80 feet of rope and you know again that she use 5,5 feet of nylon for every boat
- after securing all the boat she was left with more than 3 feet of rope

so let x be the number of boats and using this note you can write this equation

5,5x +3 = 80 from what than you calcule the x value so will get sure easy the correct answer

hope helped understandably