Write a real world problem that you can model with the two step equation 5x+7=10. Then solve the problem.

I understand that the answer is 3/5, but how would I put this in a real world situation?

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Sure! Let's say you're at a store that sells T-shirts and you have a certain amount of money to spend. You see that the price of each T-shirt is $5. However, you also notice that there is a sale going on where you can get a $7 discount on any purchase. You want to figure out how many T-shirts you can afford to buy with the money you have.

To model this situation with a two-step equation, we can let 'x' represent the number of T-shirts you want to buy. The equation becomes:

5x + 7 = 10

The left side of the equation, 5x, represents the total cost of the T-shirts you want to buy, since each T-shirt costs $5. The right side of the equation, 10, represents the total amount of money you have to spend.

To solve this equation, we can begin by subtracting 7 from both sides of the equation:

5x = 10 - 7
5x = 3

Next, we divide both sides of the equation by 5 to isolate the variable 'x':

x = 3/5

So, the solution to the equation is x = 3/5. In the real-world situation, it means that you can afford to buy 3/5 or 0.6 of a T-shirt, since you can't buy a fractional part of a T-shirt, this would round down to 0 T-shirts.

@John

wow so helpful -.-

7 more than 5 times a number is 10.

Replace "a number" with something from the real world.