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?
3 answers
The variable x represents the number of boards in each kit.
screws in how many kits?
The variable x represents the number of boards in each kit. The number of screws in each kit is given as 18.
1 answer