The Oakland School's harvest festival is coming up, and Ms. Garza is in charge of ordering the caramel apples again. She knows she ordered 9 cases of caramel apples last year but can't remember how many apples come in a case. She checks last year's records and finds that the school sold 685 caramel apples and had 35 left over.

Question

The Oakland School's harvest festival is coming up, and Ms. Garza is in charge of ordering the caramel apples again. She knows she ordered 9 cases of caramel apples last year but can't remember how many apples come in a case. She checks last year's records and finds that the school sold 685 caramel apples and had 35 left over.

Which equation can Ms. Garza use to find how many caramel apples, c, come in each case?
How many caramel apples come in each case?
caramel apples

Answer 1

Let x represent the number of caramel apples in each case.

The total number of caramel apples ordered last year is 9x.
The number of caramel apples sold is 9x - 35.

Setting up an equation, we have:

9x - 35 = 685.

Simplifying the equation:

9x = 720.

Dividing both sides by 9:

x = 80.

Therefore, Ms. Garza ordered 9 cases of caramel apples, with each case containing 80 caramel apples.