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Answer:
Only Elijah's model is correct
Step-by-step explanation:
The data given in the question tells us they have 12 games left on their soccer team. Each one of them tried to simulate the fact by creating some model which look like a balance between quantities.
Elijah placed 3 cubes of value 1 and a cube of value x on one side of a balance. On the other side, he placed 15 cubes of value 1. He was obviously modeling the fact that 15 cubes (games due to play in our case) should be equal to 3 cubes (games already played) plus the x numbers left to play
This model if perfect, since the only way to equilibrate the balance is setting x to 12, the games left to play
Jonathan used a table with 3 x's in a row and a 15 in the second row, trying to model the same situation. To our interpretation, this table doesn't show the number of games left to play. If we equate 3x = 15, we get x=5 which has nothing to do with the situation explained in the question, so this model is not correct.
Elijah's model is correct .
Elijah and Jonathan play on the same soccer team. They have played 3 of their 15 games.
x is the number of games that are left to be played.
Elijah and Jonathan have 12 games left on their soccer team.
Elijah and Jonathan both try to simulate the situation which are shown in figure.
Creating some model which look like a balance between quantities.
Elijah placed 3 cubes of value 1 and a cube of value x on one side of a balance.
On the other side Elijah placed 15 cubes.
The value of each cube = 1
so 15 [tex]\times 1 = 15[/tex] which are equal to total number of games.
Since 3 games are already played so on the left hand side
3 boxes of magnitude 1 each are placed.
[tex]x[/tex] is the number of games that are left.
Jonathan uses a table with three x values in a row and a 15 is the total number of games to be played are represented in the second row trying to model the same situation.
This table doesn't show the number of games left to play.
Which are 12 in number
According to Jonathan's model
[tex]3x = 15 \\x =5[/tex]
This does not model the number of games left which are 12 in number and hence
Jonathan's model does not explains the situation
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