Question

A bakery used 38 pounds of flour to make French bread and

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bagels. One loaf of French bread requires 2- pounds of flour,

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and one batch of bagels requires pound of flour. Let a

represent the number of loaves of bread and b represent the

number of batches of bagels. Which equation represents the

relationship between the number of loaves of French bread

and the number of batches of bagels that the bakery made?

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Answer 1

Answer:

since we are not given the options, I will write down a few equations that represent the number of French bread loaves and bagels:

• a = number of loaves of French bread
• b = number of bagels
• available amount of flour = 38

2a + b ≤ 38

2a ≤ 38 - b

a ≤ (38 - b) / 2

a ≤ 19 - 0.5b

b ≤ 38 - 2a

b ≤ 2(19 - a)

Hopefully one of these equations is one of the choices given to you.