{"id":261209,"date":"2025-07-19T21:47:41","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T21:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learnexams.com\/blog\/?p=261209"},"modified":"2025-07-19T21:47:43","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T21:47:43","slug":"50-of-merediths-shoes-are-sneakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/19\/50-of-merediths-shoes-are-sneakers\/","title":{"rendered":"50% of Meredith&#8217;s shoes are sneakers."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>50% of Meredith&#8217;s shoes are sneakers. If she has 10 pairs of sneakers, how many pairs of shoes does Meredith have in all? Pick the model that represents the problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-ast-global-color-1-color\">The Correct Answer and Explanation is:<\/mark><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let\u2019s break this down step by step.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Step 1: Understanding the Information Given<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>50% of Meredith\u2019s shoes are sneakers.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>She has 10 pairs of sneakers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>We need to find out how many pairs of shoes she has in total. To solve this, we can set up an equation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Step 2: Representing the Problem with Variables<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Let xxx represent the total number of pairs of shoes Meredith has. We know that 50% of her total shoes are sneakers. This means: 0.50 \\times x = 10 \\quad \\text{(since 50% of her shoes are sneakers, and she has 10 pairs of sneakers)}<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Step 3: Solving the Equation<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>To solve for xxx, divide both sides of the equation by 0.50: x=100.50=20x = \\frac{10}{0.50} = 20x=0.5010\u200b=20<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Step 4: Conclusion<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>So, Meredith has <strong>20 pairs of shoes in total<\/strong>. This means that out of the 20 pairs, 10 are sneakers, and the other 10 could be other types of shoes, like boots or flats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Explanation of the Model<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The problem is represented as 0.50\u00d7x=100.50 \\times x = 100.50\u00d7x=10, where xxx is the total number of pairs of shoes.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>By dividing both sides by 0.50, we found the total number of shoes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Therefore, the total number of pairs of shoes Meredith has is <strong>20<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/learnexams-banner6-1125.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-261210\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>50% of Meredith&#8217;s shoes are sneakers. If she has 10 pairs of sneakers, how many pairs of shoes does Meredith have in all? Pick the model that represents the problem. The Correct Answer and Explanation is: Let\u2019s break this down step by step. Step 1: Understanding the Information Given We need to find out how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-261209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exams-certification"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}