Question

In Paul's garden, there are 25 rows of vegetables. She has eight more rows of peppers than tomatoes and thirteen fewer rows of cucumbers than tomatoes. Find the number of rows of tomatoes.

Answer 1

SOLUTION

GIVEN

In Parul 's garden, there are 25 rows of vegetables. She has five more rows of peppers than tomatoes and two fewer rows of cucumbers than tomatoes. If y represents the number of rows of tomatoes in the garden

TO DETERMINE

The number sentence that can be used to find the number of rows of each vegetable were planted

EVALUATION

Here it is given that y represents the number of rows of tomatoes in the garden

Parul has five more rows of peppers than tomatoes

So number of rows of peppers = y + 5

Again Parul has two fewer rows of cucumbers than tomatoes

So the number of rows of cucumbers = y - 2

Now it is given that in Parul 's garden, there are 25 rows of vegetables

therefore y + (y + 5) + (y - 2) = 25}∴y+(y+5)+(y−2)=25

Which is the required equation

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