At his school's spring carnival, Lorenzo is in charge of the balloon-launcher contest. In this contest, each team builds a catapult to launch water balloons at a target. Lorenzo gives a bucket of 15 water balloons to each team in the contest. In all, he gives out 90 water balloons.Which equation can you use to find the number of teams t in the contest?Choices:(A) t−15=90(B) 15t=90(C) 15t=90(D) t+15=90Solve this equation for t to find the number of teams in the contest.___ teams
Q. At his school's spring carnival, Lorenzo is in charge of the balloon-launcher contest. In this contest, each team builds a catapult to launch water balloons at a target. Lorenzo gives a bucket of 15 water balloons to each team in the contest. In all, he gives out 90 water balloons.Which equation can you use to find the number of teams t in the contest?Choices:(A) t−15=90(B) 15t=90(C) 15t=90(D) t+15=90Solve this equation for t to find the number of teams in the contest.___ teams
Set Up Equation: To find the number of teams t that participated in the contest, we need to set up an equation that relates the number of water balloons given out to the number of teams. Since Lorenzo gives a bucket of 15 water balloons to each team, and the total number of water balloons given out is 90, we can write the equation as 15t=90, where t represents the number of teams.
Isolate t: Now we need to solve the equation 15t=90 for t. To do this, we divide both sides of the equation by 15 to isolate t.t=1590
Solve for t: Perform the division to find the value of t.t=6
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