The Oakland School's harvest festival is coming up, and Ms. Garza is in charge of ordering the caramel apples again. She knows she ordered 9 cases of caramel apples last year but can't remember how many apples come in a case. She checks last year's records and finds that the school sold 685 caramel apples and had 35 left over.Which equation can Ms. Garza use to find how many caramel apples, c, come in each case?Choices:(A) 9(c−685)=35(B) 685c−9=35(C) 9c−685=35(D) 685(c−9)=35How many caramel apples come in each case?____ caramel apples
Q. The Oakland School's harvest festival is coming up, and Ms. Garza is in charge of ordering the caramel apples again. She knows she ordered 9 cases of caramel apples last year but can't remember how many apples come in a case. She checks last year's records and finds that the school sold 685 caramel apples and had 35 left over.Which equation can Ms. Garza use to find how many caramel apples, c, come in each case?Choices:(A) 9(c−685)=35(B) 685c−9=35(C) 9c−685=35(D) 685(c−9)=35How many caramel apples come in each case?____ caramel apples
Identify Total Caramel Apples: Identify the total number of caramel apples involved.Ms. Garza sold 685 caramel apples and had 35 left over. To find the total number of caramel apples, we add these two numbers together.Total caramel apples = 685 (sold) + 35 (left over) = 720 caramel apples.
Determine Relationship: Determine the relationship between the total number of caramel apples and the number of cases.Since Ms. Garza ordered 9 cases and we have found that there were 720 caramel apples in total, we can express the total number of caramel apples as the product of the number of cases and the number of caramel apples per case.Total caramel apples = Number of cases × Number of caramel apples per case720=9×c
Write Equation: Write the equation that represents the relationship.The equation that represents the relationship between the total number of caramel apples and the number of caramel apples per case is:9c=720
Solve Equation: Solve the equation to find the number of caramel apples per case.To find c, we divide both sides of the equation by 9.c=9720c=80
Verify Solution: Verify the solution by plugging the value of c back into the equation.9c=7209(80)=720720=720The solution checks out.
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