ALGEBRA II-UNIT #1-PART #2- BRAIN TEASERS-DAY #10-(9/12/17)
Brain Teaser- "Algebraic Sugar Cane"
10 factories produce sugar cane. The second produced twice as much as the first. The third and fourth each produced 80 more than the first. The fifth produced twice as much as the second. The sixth produced 40 more than the fifth. The seventh and eighth each produced 40 less than the fifth. The ninth produced 80 more than the second. The tenth produced nothing due to drought in Australia. If the sum of the production equaled 11,700 lbs of Sugar Cane, what did the first factory produce?
HINT: Create a chart and use that chart to help you create an equations to help you solve this problem. (Let the first factory product X amount of sugar cane.)