Question

A school fundraiser needs to raise a total of $1000. The students are selling artwork for $25 a piece. They have already raised $300 toward their goal. Write and solve an equation to represent this situation

Answer 1

ANSWER: 25x+300=1000

EXPLANATION: $25 is how much each artwork is worth so you multiply that by how many artworks needed to make 1000, but since you don’t know how many you need you put an x. You’ve already made $300, so you add that to 25x so you get 25x+300 and then finally because you need your outcome to be 1000 you put that as what the equation should equal to and you should get 25x+300=1000.