Emma makes bracelets and necklaces using multi-coloured beads of different sizes. A bracelet consists of a total of beads.A necklace has 56 more beads than a bracelet.a) Write an expression for the total number of beads usedto make a bracelet and a necklace.b) Emma used 100 beads to make a bracelet and a necklace.Find the number of beads used to make the bracelet.

Answer :

Explanation: Once n represents the number of beads used to make a bracelet and n+56 is the number of beads used to make a necklace we have that the total number of beads to make a single bracelet plus a single necklace is given by the following expression

Letter a)

[tex]\begin{gathered} \text{Total}_{beads}=Beads_{bracelet}+Beads_{\text{necklace}} \\ \text{Total}_{beads}=n+(n+56) \\ \text{Total}_{beads}=2n+56 \end{gathered}[/tex]

Letter b)

Once Emma has 100 beads we can substitute this value on our expression as follows

[tex]\begin{gathered} \text{Total}_{beads}=2n+56 \\ \text{100}=2n+56 \\ \frac{100-56}{2}=n \\ n=22 \end{gathered}[/tex]

As we can see above the number of beads used to make the bracelet is 22

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