Question

michael filled 6 boxes with shirts and jackets. each box had 7 shirts and j jackets. he used a total of 72 pieces of clothing. what does your answer of 5 mean in this situation? 72 j+7 blocks repeated 6 times j=5 there are 5 pieces of clothing in each box. michael has 5 total jackets. there are 5 jackets in each box.

Explanation:

• Analyze the variable \( j \): In the problem, \( j \) represents the number of jackets in each box (since each box has 7 shirts and \( j \) jackets).
• Evaluate the first option: Each box has \( j + 7 \) pieces of clothing. If \( j = 5 \), each box has \( 5 + 7 = 12 \) pieces, so this option is incorrect.
• Evaluate the second option: Total jackets would be \( 6\times j \) (since there are 6 boxes). If \( j = 5 \), total jackets are \( 6\times5 = 30 \), so this option is incorrect.
• Evaluate the third option: Since \( j \) is the number of jackets per box, \( j = 5 \) means there are 5 jackets in each box. This matches the definition of \( j \).

Answer:

There are 5 jackets in each box.