Martin used apples to make muffins. Omar used apples to make applesauce. Omar used 5 fewer than half as many apples as Marrin used. Write an expression to show the number of apples that both used in all. What does variable represent?
Could Martin have used 10 apples?Why or why not?
Yes
Martin used m
Omar used .5m-5
total = m + .5 m - 5 = 1.5 m-5
I don't understand
Yes because idk
Yes because Omar used fewer than 5 apples
I am having the same problem as you. but it is physically impossible for Omar to use zero apples to make applesauce.
To write an expression for the number of apples that both Martin and Omar used, we can start by letting "x" represent the number of apples that Martin used.
Since Omar used 5 fewer than half as many apples as Martin used, we can express it as (1/2)x - 5.
Now, to find the number of apples that both used, we need to calculate the intersection of the two amounts. This can be done by finding the minimum value between the number of apples Martin used (x) and the number of apples Omar used ((1/2)x - 5).
Therefore, the expression to represent the number of apples that both used is min(x, (1/2)x - 5).
The variable "x" represents the number of apples that Martin used.