Question

jaya's coach agreed to buy ice cream for all of the team members. Ice cream cones cost $2.80 each. Write and solve an equation to find how many cones. c the coach can buy with $42

Answer 1

Let 'c' be the number of cones that the coach can buy. Since each ice cream cone costs $2.80, then we have the following expression:

$2.8c$

Now, the coach has $42, then we can write the following equation:

$2.8c=42$

To solve for 'c', we just have to move the coefficient 2.8 to the right side doing its opposite operation: division:

$\begin{gathered} 2.8c=42 \\ \Rightarrow c=\frac{42}{2.8}=15 \\ c=15 \end{gathered}$

therefore, the coach can buy 15 ice cream cones with $42