Mrs. Barritz is packing food bags for the

sick. Because of the special health needs

of the people to whom they will be

delivered, 15 less than half of the bags

will include some diabetic food.

If she wants to use algebra to find out how

many bags do not contain diabetic food, which

of expressionsbelow represents that amount?

Let b = number of bags of food.

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Ellie

Mathematics

7 November, 00:48

Mrs. Barritz is packing food bags for the

sick. Because of the special health needs

of the people to whom they will be

delivered, 15 less than half of the bags

will include some diabetic food.

If she wants to use algebra to find out how

many bags do not contain diabetic food, which

of expressionsbelow represents that amount?

Let b = number of bags of food.

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Answers (2)

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Kaufman · Answer 1

b - (b/2 - 15)

Step-by-step explanation:

b = total number of bags

Half of the bags means b/2

I5 less than half of the bags means b/2 - 15; which is the number of bags with diabetic food

The number of bags without diabetic food means the total number of bags (b) minus the number of bags with diabetic food (b/2 - 15)

Mathematically, it will be expressed in algebra as b - (b/2 - 15)