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A cardboard box, which weighs 0.6 pound when empty, is filled with 15 bags of beans and a 4-pound bag of rice. The total weight of the box and the contents inside it is 25.6 pounds. One way to represent this situation is with the equation .
In this situation, what does the solution to the equation represent?
The solution is the weight of a bag of beans.
Identify the three equations that are equivalent to 0.6+15b+4=25.6.
, , . Correctly applying the properties of real numbers and using inverse operations helps you recognize equivalent equations.