Question

A school bought $548 in basketball equipment and uniforms costing $29.50 each. The total cost was $2,023. Write an equation you can use to find the number of uniforms the school purchased.

Answer 1

548 + 29.5x=2023 should be the answer

Answer 2

($2,023-$548) / $29.50 = 50

What the equation means: Since we already know they spent $548 in basketball equipment, we can subtract that from the total cost to find out how much they spent for the uniforms. After that, we have to divide the money used to buy the uniforms by the cost of each uniforms. Your final answer would be 50 uniforms.

I hope this helped you!

* / means the division sign.