The products sold at Baywood Farmers Market include farm-fresh produce and homemade jams and breads. This Sunday, the 20 vendors set up stations in a row, spanning a total of 200 feet along Main Street. Each station was the same length.

Question

Let s represent the length of each station. Which equation models the problem?
Solve this equation to find the length of each station.
feet

Answer 1

To model the problem, we can use the following equation:

\[ 20s = 200 \]

where \( s \) is the length of each station, and \( 20 \) represents the number of vendors (or stations). The total length they occupy is given as \( 200 \) feet.

Now, we can solve the equation for \( s \):

1. Divide both sides of the equation by \( 20 \):

\[ s = \frac{200}{20} \]

2. Calculate the division:

\[ s = 10 \]

Thus, each station is \( 10 \) feet long.