Sarah is baking biscuits for a bake sale each batch makes 27 biscuits and her friend give her another 60 biscuits. She ends up with 360 biscuits total for the bake sale use algebra to sell for how many batches she made.

Answer 1

Let's first assign variables to the unknown quantities:
Let x be the number of batches Sarah made.

Each batch makes 27 biscuits, so the total number of biscuits from the batches is 27x biscuits.

Sarah's friend gives her another 60 biscuits, so the total number of biscuits is 27x + 60 biscuits.

We know that the total number of biscuits is 360 biscuits, so we can set up the equation:
27x + 60 = 360

Now, we solve for x:
27x + 60 - 60 = 360 - 60
27x = 300
27x / 27 = 300 / 27
x = 11.11

Since we can't have a fraction of a batch, the closest whole number value for x is 11.

Therefore, Sarah made 11 batches of biscuits for the bake sale.