Question

It costs a flat rate of $35 for you to rent the ovens for as many hours as you want. You charge $29 per birthday cake. Your total costs is $470. Write and solve an equation to find how many birthday cakes were made.

Answer 1

35+29x=470 x=15 cakes

Explanation:

3 35 represents rate for the oven and then 29 dollars per cake is the 29. 470 is the total amount of money you spent you just have to solve the equation from then to get x equals 15

Answer 2

470 = 29x+35

(x is number of birthday cakes)

subtract 35 from both sides,

435 = 29x

divide both sides by 29 to get x by itself,

15 = x

15 birthday cakes were made!