Given the equation 13x=7

, fill in the blank with the value that models the equation.
Harry has
times the number of toy cars that Sally has. Sally has
toy cars.

1 answer

To solve the equation \( 13x = 7 \), we need to isolate \( x \):

\[ x = \frac{7}{13} \]

This means that Harry has \(\frac{7}{13}\) times the number of toy cars that Sally has.

Let \( s \) represent the number of toy cars that Sally has. Since Harry has \(\frac{7}{13}\) times the number of toy cars that Sally has, we can express the number of toy cars that Harry has as:

\[ h = \frac{7}{13}s \]

Thus, we can complete the sentences as follows:

Harry has \(\frac{7}{13}\) times the number of toy cars that Sally has. Sally has \( s \) toy cars, where \( s \) is any non-negative integer representing the number of toy cars Sally has.

Therefore, we can fill in the blanks like this:

Harry has \(\frac{7}{13}\) times the number of toy cars that Sally has. Sally has \( s \) toy cars.