Question

a pair of football cleats cost $42 Samantha makes $1.75 every time she washes the dishes right and solve an equation that will find how many times man will have to wash dishes to buy the football cleats

Answer 1

We have from the question the following information:

1. The football cleats cost $42.

2. Samantha makes $1.75 every time she washes the dishes.

We can write the next equation that represents this situation:

`1.75x=42`

That is, Samantha, each time she washes the dishes right, she earns $1.75. We need to know how many times does she need to wash the dishes right? The answer is to solve the previous equation by 1.75 to both sides of it:

`(1.75x)/(1.75)=(42)/(1.75)\Rightarrow x=24`

Therefore, Samantha needs to wash the dishes 24 times (right) to have the exact amount of money to buy the football cleats.