Lindsay practices the guitar 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.(2 points)

Question

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Answer 1

To represent Lindsay's guitar practice mathematically, we can define \( x \) as the number of weekdays she practiced.

From the problem, we know that she practices 50 minutes on Saturday, and on most weekdays she practices 30 minutes each day.

The total practice time for the weekdays would be \( 30x \) (since she practices 30 minutes each day for \( x \) days).

We can set up the equation to represent the total practice time:

\[ 30x + 50 = 140 \]

Now, we can rearrange this equation into the standard form \( px + q = r \):

\[ 30x + 50 = 140 \]

So, the equation in the required form is:

\[ 30x + 50 = 140 \]