Question

Question

Mrs. Pine made a snack bag for each student in her class.

- Each snack bag had 5 carrots and 4 apple slices.
- She used a total of 100 carrots.

Which pair of equations would be most helpful for finding the number of apple slices, a, Mrs. Pine used to make a snack bags?

(1 point)
Responses

100 ÷ 4 = 25 and 25 X 4 = a
100 ÷ 4 = 25 and 25 X 4 = a

100 ÷ 4 = 25 and 25 X 5 = a
100 ÷ 4 = 25 and 25 X 5 = a

100 ÷ 5 = 20 and 20 X 4 = a
100 ÷ 5 = 20 and 20 X 4 = a

100 ÷ 5 = 20 and 20 X 5 = a

Answer 1

To solve for the number of apple slices, we first need to determine how many snack bags Mrs. Pine made using the total number of carrots.

Since each snack bag contains 5 carrots, we can calculate the number of snack bags by dividing the total number of carrots (100) by the number of carrots per snack bag (5):

\( 100 \div 5 = 20\)

This tells us that Mrs. Pine made 20 snack bags.

Next, since each snack bag also contains 4 apple slices, we can calculate the total number of apple slices by multiplying the number of snack bags (20) by the number of apple slices per snack bag (4):

\( 20 \times 4 = 80\)

Thus, the total number of apple slices \( a \) can be represented with the following equations:

• \( 100 \div 5 = 20 \)
• \( 20 \times 4 = a \)

So, the correct pair of equations would be:

100 ÷ 5 = 20 and 20 X 4 = a