Each person in Sharae's family of 5 eats 3 bowls of cereal each week. Her mother is going grocery shopping and wants to know how many bowls of cereal they will eat over the next 4 weeks.
Write and solve an equation to find how many bowls of cereal the family will eat? Use a letter for the unknown quantity.
5 * 3 * 4 = b
60 = b
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To find the number of bowls of cereal the family will eat over the next 4 weeks, we can write and solve an equation.
Let's assign a variable to represent the unknown quantity, which in this case is the number of bowls of cereal the family will eat over 4 weeks.
Let's say the variable is 'x'.
Each person in Sharae's family of 5 eats 3 bowls of cereal each week.
So, the number of bowls of cereal eaten by one person in a week is 3.
The number of bowls of cereal eaten by the family in a week is 5 (number of people in the family) multiplied by 3 (number of bowls one person eats in a week). This gives us a total of 15 bowls of cereal per week.
Over 4 weeks, the family will eat 15 bowls of cereal in a week multiplied by 4, which gives:
15 * 4 = 60
Therefore, the family will eat 60 bowls of cereal over the next 4 weeks.