It is 3/4 h before closing time at the grocery store. it takes about 1/8 h for jane to find 1 item on her shopping list. how many items can she find before the store closes? create a model or write an equation for the situation. find the solution. explain what you did. state the solution as a full sentence.

1. Equation

2. Explain

Well, we now that for every 1 item one-eighth of an hour passes and that the store will close in three-fourths of the hour. The question ask us to find the amount of items Jane will have before the store closes so we set our equation equal to 3/4 h, and then used algebraic manipulation. When dividing 3/4h by 1/8h the variable of hours cancels out leaving us with the answer of 6 items because the variable i is left.

3. Statement

Jane is able to find 6 items before the store closes.