Jerrell made $24 babysitting his cousins Saturday night. This is $7 more than he made babysitting Friday night. How much money did Jerrell make babysitting on Friday night? Write and solve an equation to find the answer.
Let's call the amount Jerrell made on Friday night "x".
We know that Jerrell made $7 less on Friday than he did on Saturday, so we can set up an equation:
x + $7 = $24
Now we can solve for x by subtracting $7 from both sides of the equation:
x = $17
Therefore, Jerrell made $17 babysitting on Friday night.
Sal made 6 ft of sausage links on Friday morning. He used 3 ft for dinner service on Friday night. On Saturday morning, he made another 6 ft of sausage links and used 9 ft for dinner service Saturday night.
What is the net change in the amount of sausage Sal had from Friday morning until after dinner service Saturday night?
A.
1 ft
B.
-1 ft
C.
2 ft
D.
0 ft
To find out how much money Jerrell made babysitting on Friday night, let's set up an equation.
Let x be the amount of money he made babysitting on Friday night.
Since he made $7 more on Saturday night, we can represent the amount he made on Saturday night as x + 7.
The equation would be: x + 7 = 24.
To solve the equation, we can subtract 7 from both sides to isolate x:
x + 7 - 7 = 24 - 7.
x = 17.
Therefore, Jerrell made $17 babysitting on Friday night.
Let's assume Jerrell made x dollars babysitting on Friday night.
According to the information given, he made $7 more babysitting on Saturday night, so he made x + $7 dollars on Saturday.
As per the given data, Jerrell made a total of $24 babysitting on Saturday night.
Therefore, the equation would be:
x + $7 = $24
To find the value of x, we will first isolate x by subtracting $7 from both sides of the equation:
x + $7 - $7 = $24 - $7
x = $17
So, Jerrell made $17 babysitting on Friday night.