Melinda earns $48 for every 3 lawns she mows in her neighborhood. She wants to buy a skateboard that costs $208. How many lawns

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ivolga24 [154]

2 years ago

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Melinda earns $48 for every 3 lawns she mows in her neighborhood. She wants to buy a skateboard that costs $208. How many lawns

will Melinda have to mow to be able to buy the skateboard?

Mathematics

1 answer:

vekshin1 · Answer 1 · 2023-11-18T19:32:22+03:00

vekshin12 years ago

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Answer:

13 lawns.

Step-by-step explanation:

To find out how many lawns Melinda has to mow, we need to find out how much money she earns per lawn. If we do 48/3, we get that for every lawn she mows, she earns 16 dollars. We then do 208/16 and we get that she has mow 13 lawns.