Question

Scarlett is playing a video game. She spends 90 minerals to create 18 workers. Each worker costs the same number of minerals. Write an equation to describe the relationship between m, the amount of minerals, and w, the number of workers.

Answer 1

m=50w

Explanation:

Answer 2

`m=5w`

Explanation:

Let

m-----> the amount of minerals

w-----> the number of workers

we know that

`(m)/(w)=(90)/(18)=5`

so

`m=5w` -----> the relationship represent a proportional variation