Sara is having a dinner party for four friends and needs to reduce the serving size of the meatloaf recipe. She uses the equation x/4=5 How many servings did the recipe originally make?
to solve this equation you need to find the value of x.
You can do this by using inverse operations.
and getting x alone.
x/4=5
the opposite of division is multiplication so we multiply 5 by 4
x=54
we now have x alone and must solve the rest of the equation
54=20
There for x=20
The recipe originally made 20 servings.
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