Jan and Carrie are selling bags of cookies and individual bags of muffins at a bake sale. Jan has 2 bags of cookies and 16 individual muffins. Carrie has 5 bags of cookies and 4 individual muffins. They know they have the same total number of items. How many cookies are in each bag? Equation:

Solve the equation, you must show all your work

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Step-by-step explanation:

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step-by-step explanation:

take the logarithm of both sides (the base of the log doesn't matter):

apply the exponent property - this says that :

distribute the log terms on both sides:

group like terms together:

divide through both sides by the coefficient on :

you can do some additional rewriting here using the properties of the logarithm to simplify things if you like: