You earn $5 for every bracelet you sell. write and solve an equation to find the number of bracelets you have to sell to earn $85.

5x=85

Step-by-step explanation:

5x=85

divide from both sides

x = 17

Answer:17

Step-by-step explanation:From the problem we know that each bracelet costs $5. So let's start our equation with the number 5.

5

Since we don't know how many bracelets we will need to sell, we will plug X into our equation to represent the number of bracelets.

5x

We know that the total we want to earn is 85, so lets set 5x equal to 85. This will give us the equation that we need to solve. It shows that $5 times the number of bracelets = $85

5x = 85

Now to figure out the total number of bracelets by solving for x.

Divide both sides by 5.

x = 17