In your garden, each of the sunflower plants makes one flower whereas each of the petunias makes five flowers. your mother calls and asks you to bring over 55 flowers for her. write an equation in standard form that describes the relationship between the number of petunia plants and sunflower plants needed to get 55 flowers for your mom.

Hi!

Let x = the number of sunflowers
y = the number of petunias

Since each one of the sunflowers makes one flower, and each of the petunias makes 5, and your mom wants 55, then I would write the equation as:

x + 5y = 55

The amount of sunflowers (since they all equal one there's no need to multiply x with anything) plus the amount of petunias • 5 (since each petunia makes 5 flowers) = 55 total flowers.

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