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: Write an equation to represent the situation. Write the equation in the order the information is presented.You volunteer at an animal shelter on the weekends and today is adoption day! At the beginning of the event, you start with 4444 cats/kittens. x𝑥 number of cats/kittens get adopted. But then, at the end of the day, someone drops off twice as many new cats/kittens as were adopted. You now have 5050 cats/kittens. Write an equation to help determine how many cats/kittens were adopted.

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: Write an equation to represent the situation. Write the equation in the order the information is presented.You volunteer at an animal shelter on the weekends and today is adoption day! At the beginning of the event, you start with 4444 cats/kittens. x𝑥 number of cats/kittens get adopted. But then, at the end of the day, someone drops off twice as many new cats/kittens as were adopted. You now have 5050 cats/kittens. Write an equation to help determine how many cats/kittens were adopted.

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Solution

The initial number of cats/kittens is 44. Let's denote the number of cats/kittens that get adopted as x. Then, twice as many new cats/kittens as were adopted are dropped off, which is 2x. At the end of the day, you have 50 cats/kittens.

So, the equation representing this situation is:

44 - x + 2x = 50

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