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An empty shipping box weighs 250 grams. The box is then filled with T-shirts. Each T-shirt weighs 132.5 grams.
The equation represents the relationship between the quantities in this situation, where is the weight, in grams, of the filled box and is the number of shirts in the box.
Name two possible solutions to the equation .
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What do the solutions mean in this situation?
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Each solution tells us the number of T-shirts in the box and the corresponding total weight in grams.
Consider the equation . In this situation, what does the solution to this equation tell us?
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It tells us the number of T-shirts in the box that results in a total weight of 2,900 grams.