Your parents lend you $1,200 to buy a new laptop. You agree to pay them back $25 per week. Which equation shows the amount you still owe your parents?

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Leonidas Leach

Mathematics

9 September, 04:53

Your parents lend you $1,200 to buy a new laptop. You agree to pay them back $25 per week. Which equation shows the amount you still owe your parents?

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Zimmerman · Answer 1

The equation you would write to represent this situation would be 1200 - 25w = t, where w represents the number of weeks and t is the total amount you still owe.

Another way to think of this is that you owe them a total amount of money but each week you pay 25, that gets taken away from the total you owe them.