Question

A furniture store sells kits that customers use to build cabinets. Each kit contains 18 screws and a set number of boards. Jarred buys 6 of these kits and has a total of 192 screws and boards. He writes the equation shown to represent the situation.

6(x + 18) = 192

What does the varaible X represent in Jarred's equation?

Answer 1

The variable x represents the number of boards in each kit.

Answer 2

screws in how many kits?

Answer 3

The variable x represents the number of boards in each kit. The number of screws in each kit is given as 18.