Question

Erome 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.

Answer 1

Part A: the expression is written as b=8p because 8 ounces are needed per person. b represents the number of ounces of broccoli that are necessary, and p represents the number of people. 
Part B: We can use the expression we made in the beginning to solve this. b would be equal to 32 because that is the number of ounces of broccoli. Then we simply solve for p in 32=8p. When you divide both sides by 8, the answer is p=4. So he can feed 4 people.
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