Jerome is cooking dinner. He needs 8 ounces of broccoli for each person.

Part A: Jerome is not sure how many people will come to dinner. Write an expression with a variable that represents the amount of broccoli Jerome needs for dinner. Identify what the variable represents.

Part B: If Jerome has 32 ounces of broccoli, how many people can he feed? Create an equation and show all work to solve it.

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Ali Willis

6 June, 18:12

Jerome is cooking dinner. He needs 8 ounces of broccoli for each person.

Part A: Jerome is not sure how many people will come to dinner. Write an expression with a variable that represents the amount of broccoli Jerome needs for dinner. Identify what the variable represents.

Part B: If Jerome has 32 ounces of broccoli, how many people can he feed? Create an equation and show all work to solve it.

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Clarence Coleman · Answer 1

Due to the fact he does not know how many people are attending, you would represent the people value with a variable. Because we know he's given 8 ox. per person, you would need to write the expression as 8x. 8 to represent the ox. needed and the x representing the people.

Divide 32 by 8 to see how many people he can serve,

32/8=4

Emma Cuevas · Answer 2

The expression for the amount of ounces times people would be x8

and if he had 32 ounces he could feed 4 people

32 divided by 8 = 4