Question

Fiona is serving iced tea and lemonade at a picnic. She has only 44 cups in which to serve the drinks. If x represents the number of glasses of iced tea and y represents the number of glasses of lemonade, which equation represents the number of glasses of iced tea she can serve?

Answer 1

`x=44-y`

Explanation:

Let x represents the number of glasses of iced tea .

Let y represents the number of glasses of lemonade.

Now we are given that She has only 44 cups in which to serve the drinks

Since y is the number of glasses of lemonade out of 44 glasses

So, remaining glasses =
`44-y`

So, remaining glasses is for iced tea .

So, No. of iced tea glasses =
`x=44-y`

Hence She can serve
`x=44-y` number of glasses of iced tea serve.

Answer 2

x = 44 - y

will compute the number of glasses of tea Fiona can serve based on the number of cups used for lemonade.