Bob has three sacks of apples and three more apples in his pocket. Each sack contains the same number of apples. Altogether, Bob has 33 apples. How many apples are in each sack? Solve with a Linear Equation
is this right
3x+3=33
3x=30
30/3=10
x-5=10
10+5=15
x=15
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I agree here:
3x=30
divide by 3
x=10 sacks.
I have no idea what you did after that.
You started off with the correct equation: 3x + 3 = 33, where "x" is the number of apples in each sack.
To solve this linear equation, we isolate the variable "x" by moving the constants to the other side of the equation:
3x = 33 - 3
3x = 30
Next, we want to get rid of the coefficient of 3 in front of "x". We do this by dividing both sides of the equation by 3:
3x / 3 = 30 / 3
x = 10
Therefore, there are 10 apples in each sack.
It seems like there was a mistake in your calculation. When you divided 30 by 3, you correctly obtained x = 10. There is no need to subtract or add any numbers at that point. So the correct answer is that each sack contains 10 apples.