Question

Jolie uses 2 tomatoes every day to prepare her salad. If n equals the number of tomatoes Jolie had before she made her salad and c equals the number of tomatoes left after the salad is made, which equation represents the number of tomatoes Jolie has after she made her salad?

Answer 1

c=n-2 would be the answer

Answer 2

Let

n-------> the number of tomatoes Jolie had before she made her salad

c------> the number of tomatoes left after the salad is made

we know that

Jolie uses
`2` tomatoes every day to prepare her salad

`c=n-2`

therefore

the answer is

The equation that represents the number of tomatoes Jolie has after she made her salad is equal to

`c=n-2`