Math

posted by .

Sugar comes in 2 pound bags and flour comes in 5 lb bags. Thomas bought 3 more bag of sugar than flour and the total weight was 48 pounds. How many bags of sugar and flour did Thomas buy?

• Math -

if there are x bags of flour, then

2(x+3) + 5x = 48

• Math -

Thanks so much!!

• Math -

Ok, now this is a question I was looking for.

So, I have the answer choices, so I know what to do.
A) 9 bags of sugar and 10 bags of flour.
Sugar is 2 pounds. So 9X2= 18
Flour is 5 pounds, which is 10X5=50
50+18=68 That is not 48 pounds. Moving on.
B) 4 bags of sugar and 8 bags of flour.
We know the drill, so let's go!
4X2=8
8X5=40
40+8=48

Similar Questions

1. math

A baker needs between 40 pounds and 50 pounds of a flour-sugar mixture that contains ten times as much flour as sugar. What are the possible weights of flour the baker can use?
2. statistic

A grain mill manufactures 100-pound bags of flour for sale in restaurant supply warehouses. Historically, the weights of bags of flour manufactured at the mill were normally distributed with a mean of 100 pounds and a standard deviation …
3. math

a pudding recipe for 50 people calls for 4 cups of sugar. each bag of sugar contains 6 cups. how many bags of sugar will be needed to make this recipe for 300 people?

A baker bought 680,000 oz. of flour and packed the flour into 200 bags of equal size. He used some flour and had 100 bags left. He decided to repack the remaining flour bags into bags of 5,000 oz. bags. How many bags of flour did he …
5. Algebra

Every sack of sugar has the same weight. Every sack of flour has the same weight, but not necessarily the same as the weight of the sacks of sugar. Suppose that three sacks of sugar together with four sacks of flour weighs no more …
6. math

florence bought two bags of flour, A and B. the two bags contained different amounts of flour. the total mass was 108 kg. Gary poured 1/4 of the flour from bag A to bag B. After that, he poured 2/5 flour from bag B to bag A. he found …
7. Math

Pupils contributed some money to help needy people. They bought twenty four 2-kg packets of flour, thirty six 1-kg packets of flour and fifty kilogram bag of sugar. The flour was packed in 500 g packets and the sugar in 250 g packets. …
8. math

Pupils contributed some money to help needy people. They bought twenty four 2-kg packets of ﬂour, thirty six 1-kg packets of ﬂour and a ﬁfty kilogram bag of sugar. The ﬂour was packed in 500g packets and the sugar in 250 g …
9. math

Students contributed some money to help needy people. They bought twenty four 2-kg packets of ﬂour, thirty six 1-kg packets of ﬂour and a ﬁfty kilogram bag of sugar. The ﬂour was packed in 500 g packets and the sugar in 250 …
10. Math

Johnsons mother bought 25kg of flour.she put the flour equally in 8 small bags.she kept 3 bags and gave the rest to friends.wat is mass of flour she kept?

More Similar Questions
{"found_math": false, "script_math_tex": 0, "script_math_asciimath": 0, "math_annotations": 0, "math_alttext": 0, "mathml": 0, "mathjax_tag": 0, "mathjax_inline_tex": 0, "mathjax_display_tex": 0, "mathjax_asciimath": 0, "img_math": 0, "codecogs_latex": 0, "wp_latex": 0, "mimetex.cgi": 0, "/images/math/codecogs": 0, "mathtex.cgi": 0, "katex": 0, "math-container": 0, "wp-katex-eq": 0, "align": 0, "equation": 0, "x-ck12": 0, "texerror": 0}