Liang bought a basket of apples to make pie for her friends. The basket of apples weight p pounds. Before she had time to make the pies, she ate 3 pounds of apples. There 17 pounds of apples left to make pies.

a. p - 3 = 17. b. total weight of basket of apples = 20 pounds.

Step-by-step explanation:

Here is he complete question.

Liang bought a basket of apples to make pies for her friends. The basket of apples weighed p pounds. Before she had time to make the pies, she ate 3 pounds of apples. There are 17 pounds of apples left to make pies. Write an equation to describe this situation. What was the total weight of the basket of apples?

Solution

Since p pounds is the total pounds of apples Liang bought, eating 3 pounds of apples would mean we subtract 3 from the original p pounds and this equal the 17 pounds left to make the pies. This is written as p - 3 = 17.

The total weight of the basket of apples is gotten from p - 3 = 17. So, p = 17 + 3 = 20 pounds.