Question

Priyas favorite gorillas are a mother named sophia and her baby. The zoo attended said that sophia weighs 8 pounds more than 5 times her baby weight. To determine the baby gorillas weight, Priya can use the equation 5a+8=318,Where is the weight of the baby gorilla. plug the weight of each gorilla into the equation to check which value makes the equation true- I'll add the picture with the weight and stuff rn akfnsk

Answer 1

The weight of the baby Gorrila is that of Paula (a = 62)

Here, we want to plug the weight of each Gorrila into the equation to see the value that makes the equation true

Simply, what we have to do is to replace the a value by the weight in pounds and see if we will arrive at 318

a) George

$\begin{gathered} a\text{ = 417} \\ 5a\text{ + 8 is 5(417) + 8 = 2093} \end{gathered}$

This is not equal to 318 and thus, cannot be correct

b) Nancy

$\begin{gathered} a\text{ = 310} \\ 5a\text{ + 8 is 5(310) + 8 = 1558} \end{gathered}$

This is not equal to 318 and is thus false

c) Hank

$\begin{gathered} a\text{ = 136} \\ 5a\text{ + 8 is 5(136) + 8 = 688} \end{gathered}$

688 is not equal to 318 and thus, this is false

d) Paula

$\begin{gathered} a\text{ = 62} \\ 5a\text{ + 8 is 5(62) + 8 = 318} \end{gathered}$

This is equal to 318 and is thus true

e) Gavin

$\begin{gathered} a\text{ is 24} \\ 5a\text{ + 8 = 5(24) + 8 = 128} \end{gathered}$

As we can see, 128 is not 318 and thus, this cannot be correct