Question

Doug's garden produces 5.8 times as many vegetables as Kelsey's garden. Together, the gardens produce 102 pounds of vegetables. How many pounds of vegetables does each garden produce?

Answer 1

• Doug's garden: 87 lbs
• Kelsey's garden: 15 lbs

Explanation:

Let k represent the pounds of produce coming from Kelsey's garden. Then Doug's garden produces 5.8k pounds of produce, and the total weight of it is ...

k + 5.8k = 102

6.8k = 102 . . . . . . . . . . . simplify

k = 102/6.8 = 15 . . . . . . pounds of produce from Kelsey's garden

5.8k = 5.8·15 = 87 . . . . pounds of produce from Doug's garden