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Kimberly has an empty cardboard box that weighs 0.5 pounds. She puts 10 loaves of bread and a 4-pound jar of peanut butter in the box. The total weight of the box and its contents is 19.5 pounds. One way to represent this situation is with the equation 0.5 - 106 + 4 = 19.5 In this situation, what does the solution to the equation represent? In other words, if you solved for b. what would the value of b tell you? You do not have to find the solution to answer the question

Respuesta :

The equation is represented by:

0.5 + 10b + 4 = 19.5

In which 19.5 is the total weight of the box and it's contents.

0.5 is the weight of the cardboard box.

4 is the weight of the jar of peanut butter.

10b is the weight of all loaves of bread.

And b is the weight of a single loaf of bread

The answer is:

The solution of the equation, which is the value of b, represents the weight of a single loaf of bread.

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