2 machines at a factory are filling cans of soup. One machine has already filled 280 cans of soup, and it fills cans at a rate of 15 per minute. The second machine has already filled 210 cans of soup, and fills cans at a rate of 12 per minute. Write an equation to show when the 2 machines will have filled the same number of cans of soup. use x as your variable.

Question

2 machines at a factory are filling cans of soup. One machine has already filled 280 cans of soup, and it fills cans at a rate of 15 per minute. The second machine has already filled 210 cans of soup, and fills cans at a rate of 12 per minute. Write an equation to show when the 2 machines will have filled the same number of cans of soup. use x as your variable.

Answer 1

The equation to show when the 2 machines will have filled the same number of cans of soup is:

280 + 15x = 210 + 12x

Answer 2

try again please

Answer 3

Apologies for the incorrect equation. Let's try again.

Let's assume the time it takes for the two machines to fill the same number of cans is "x" minutes.

Machine 1 fills cans at a rate of 15 cans per minute. So in "x" minutes, it will fill 15x cans.

Machine 2 fills cans at a rate of 12 cans per minute. So in "x" minutes, it will fill 12x cans.

Since we want the two machines to have filled the same number of cans:

280 + 15x = 210 + 12x