Write an equation to solve each problem.
- One chamber was 195 ft 4. Each of 24 scouts brought 15 ft
below sea level. Another of rope. If they laid their ropes
chamber was 119 ft deeper. end to end to form a long strand,
How many feet below sea how many feet long would it be?
level was the second chamber? - Zack found an arrowhead 6. Lucy’s Lunches prepared 24
that was about 1500 years old. box lunches for the scouts.
Chang found one that was The total cost of the lunches
twice as old. About how old was $ 94.80. What was the
was Chang’s arrowhead? cost of each box lunch? - Each guide was to lead a team 8. The lengths of five passages
of 5 scouts. There were 24 in a cave are 17.2 mi,
scouts in all. How many 24.5 mi, 18.3 mi, 16.4 mi,
teams of 5 were there? How and 23.6 mi. What is the
many guides were needed for total length of the five
all the scouts? passages in the cave? - Carlsbad Caverns covers 10. A cave has 144 miles of
46,755 acres. The Wind Cave underground passages.
covers 28,295 acres. How Exploring 3 miles each day,
many more acres does how many days would it take
Carlsbad Caverns cover? to explore all the passages?
Find the value of the variable.
- 7 n 15 12. n 5 8 13. 6 n 36
- 40 n 8 15. 12 n 5 16. n 7 9
- n 4 28 18. n 8 1 19. n 5 5
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