Question

Fiona is serving iced tea and lemonade at a picnic. She has only 44 glasses in which to serve the drinks. If x represents the number of glasses of iced tea and y represents the number of glasses of lemonade, which equation represents the number of glasses of ice tea she can serve?

x minus y equals 44
44 plus y equals x
y minus x equals 44
x equals 44 minus y

Answer 1

x = 44 − y

Because the total number of glasses is 44, x + y = 44, so solving for x gives x = 44 − y.