A company is making new soccer uniforms for a team. The company uses 2.5 yards of fabric for each shirt. The company uses 82.5 yards of fabric to make shirts and shorts for 15 players. The equation and solution below represents the situation. 15(2.5+x)=82.5; x=3 What does the solution, x=3, represent?
x=3 represents the amount of fabric required to make the shorts, since it says the company uses 82.5 yards of fabric to make shirts AND shorts, so you have to add the amount of fabric each pair of shorts takes to create. Hope this helped!