Lindsay practices the guatir 50 minutes on Saturday and 30 minutes on most weekdays. Last week she practiced 140 minutes. How many weekdays did she practice? Write an equation in the form px + q = r to represent this problem

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To represent Lindsay's practice time with an equation, let's define:

  • \( x \): the number of weekdays she practiced (Monday through Friday).

Lindsay practices 30 minutes on most weekdays. If she practices \( x \) weekdays, her total practice time for those days is \( 30x \).

She also practices for 50 minutes on Saturday.

Putting this information together, we can represent her total practice time as:

\[ 30x + 50 = 140 \]

Now, rearranging this in the form \( px + q = r \):

\[ 30x + 50 = 140 \]

So, in the required format:

  • \( p = 30 \)
  • \( q = 50 \)
  • \( r = 140 \)

The complete equation is:

\[ 30x + 50 = 140 \]