Arecipe calls for 5 1/2 cups of flour. lorenzo only has 3 3/4 cups of flour. write and slove an equation to find the additional amount of flour lorenzo needs to make the recipe.

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We are given that a recipe required flour=

Lorenzo has flour=

We have to find an equation to find the additional amount of flour Lorenzo needs to make the recipe.

Let x be the additional amount of flour  that is required to make the recipe

According to question

Using subtraction property of equality

Hence, Lorenzo needs additional amount of flour to make recipe=

arrange the equations with like terms in columns.

analyze the coefficients of x or y.

add the equations and solve for the remaining variable.

substitute the value into either equation and solve.

check the solution.

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